Methanococcus aeolicus (DSM 17508, OCM 812, Nankai-3)

Name: Methanococcus aeolicus (DSM 17508, OCM 812, Nankai-3)
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BacDive ID 7001

Type strain

Strain Designation Nankai-3

Culture col. no. DSM 17508 OCM 812 Nankai-3

NCBI tax ID(s) 42879

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- M. Kendall, Portland State Univ., USA; Nankai-3 <- Y. Liu

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Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 is an anaerobe, thermophilic, motile prokaryote that was isolated from deep marine sediment.

motile coccus-shaped anaerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297267

DSM 17508

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:22

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanococci

Order Methanococcales

Family Methanococcaceae

Genus Methanococcus

Species Methanococcus aeolicus

Full scientific name Methanococcus aeolicus Kendall et al. 2006

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanococcus aeolicus** (1)	Type strain
7000	M. aeolicus PL-15/H, DSM 17251, OCM 836

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Gram stain	Confidence
31762	1.5-2 µm	coccus-shaped
125439				negative	91.7

Pigmentation

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Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7030	METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141) Composition: NaHCO3 4.89237 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 3.91389 g/l Yeast extract 1.95695 g/l Trypticase peptone 1.95695 g/l Na-acetate 0.978474 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.489237 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.489237 g/l KCl 0.332681 g/l NH4Cl 0.244618 g/l K2HPO4 0.136986 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0293542 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0146771 g/l NaCl 0.00978474 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00489237 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00195695 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000978474 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000978474 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000489237 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000293542 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000195695 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.78474e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.78474e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89237e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89237e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89237e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95695e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95695e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.91389e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.93542e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.78474e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
7030	positive	growth	40	thermophilic
31762	positive	growth	20-55
31762	positive	optimum	40-50	thermophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
31762	positive	optimum	6.5-7.5
31762	positive	growth	5.5-7.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
7030	anaerobe
31762	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.237

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.099

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31762	NaCl	positive	growth	0.29-5.8 %
31762	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.29-5.8 %

Observation

31762

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31762	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7030	deep marine sediment	Nankai Trough	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ195164 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	7
Plant Samples
Total Samples	15

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7030	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1718v1 assembly for Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3	complete	GCA_000017185	419665.15	640753034	419665	99.54

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7030	Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ195164	1394		419665

GC content

31762

GC-content (mol%)32

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3
NCBI: GCA_000017185

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	64.70	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	58.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	91.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	64.30	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 Nankai-3
NCBI: GCA_000017185.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	59.30	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.24	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	91.03	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.10	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	50.32	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.63	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Cultivation of methanogenic community from subseafloor sediments using a continuous-flow bioreactor.	Imachi H, Aoi K, Tasumi E, Saito Y, Yamanaka Y, Saito Y, Yamaguchi T, Tomaru H, Takeuchi R, Morono Y, Inagaki F, Takai K.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2011.64	2011
Phylogeny	Methanococcus aeolicus sp. nov., a mesophilic, methanogenic archaeon from shallow and deep marine sediments.	Kendall MM, Liu Y, Sieprawska-Lupa M, Stetter KO, Whitman WB, Boone DR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64216-0	2006

References

#7030	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17508
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#28035	IJSEM 1525 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64216-0 , PubMed 16825624 )
#31762	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28035
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Methanococcus aeolicus (DSM 17508, OCM 812, Nankai-3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000017185

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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