Methanothermococcus okinawensis (DSM 14208, JCM 11175, IH1)

Name: Methanothermococcus okinawensis (DSM 14208, JCM 11175, IH1)
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BacDive ID 7003

Type strain

Strain Designation IH1

Culture col. no. DSM 14208 JCM 11175 IH1

NCBI tax ID(s) 647113 155863

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

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Methanothermococcus okinawensis IH1 is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hydrothermal vent chimney, 972 m depth.

anaerobe thermophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100753

DSM 14208,JCM 11175

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:28

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanococci

Order Methanococcales

Family Methanococcaceae

Genus Methanothermococcus

Species Methanothermococcus okinawensis

Full scientific name Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai et al. 2002

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5251	METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282) Composition: MgCl2 x 6 H2O 4.05138 g/l NaHCO3 0.988142 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.494071 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.494071 g/l KCl 0.326087 g/l NH4Cl 0.247036 g/l K2HPO4 0.13834 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0296443 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148221 g/l NaCl 0.00988142 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00988142 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00494071 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00177866 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00177866 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000988142 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000988142 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000494071 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000296443 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000197628 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.88142e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.88142e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.88142e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.88142e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.94071e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.94071e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.94071e-05 g/l Biotin 1.97628e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97628e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.95257e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.96443e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.88142e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
5251	positive	growth	65	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	60	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5251

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		91.571

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
5251	hydrothermal vent chimney, 972 m depth	Okinawa Trough, Iheya Ridge	Japan	JPN	Asia	27.7833	126.9 27.7833/126.9
67770	Deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Iheya Ridge	Okinawa Trough	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB057722 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanothermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	8

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5251	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	ASM17957v2 assembly for Methanothermococcus okinawensis IH1	complete	GCA_000179575	647113.11	650716055	647113	98.24

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5251	Methanothermococcus okinawensis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB057722	1392		155863

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
5251	33.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Methanothermococcus okinawensis IH1
IMG: 650716055

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	65.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	55.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	59.70	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	86.40	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanothermococcus okinawensis IH1 IH1
NCBI: GCA_000179575.2

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	64.93	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	87.89	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	87.07	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	91.57	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	54.88	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.88	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Biotechnology	Quantitative analysis of amino acid excretion by Methanothermobacter marburgensis under N₂-fixing conditions.	Reischl B, Schupp B, Palabikyan H, Steger-Mahnert B, Fink C, Rittmann SKR.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-025-87686-1	2025
Biotechnology	Lipidomics and Comparative Metabolite Excretion Analysis of Methanogenic Archaea Reveal Organism-Specific Adaptations to Varying Temperatures and Substrate Concentrations.	Taubner RS, Baumann LMF, Steiner M, Pfeifer K, Reischl B, Korynt K, Bauersachs T, Mahnert B, Clifford EL, Peckmann J, Schuster B, Birgel D, Rittmann SKR.	mSystems	10.1128/msystems.01159-22	2023
	Membrane Lipid Composition and Amino Acid Excretion Patterns of Methanothermococcus okinawensis Grown in the Presence of Inhibitors Detected in the Enceladian Plume.	Taubner RS, Baumann LMF, Bauersachs T, Clifford EL, Mahnert B, Reischl B, Seifert R, Peckmann J, Rittmann SKR, Birgel D.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life9040085	2019
	Method for Indirect Quantification of CH4 Production via H2O Production Using Hydrogenotrophic Methanogens.	Taubner RS, Rittmann SK.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.00532	2016
	Biological methane production under putative Enceladus-like conditions.	Taubner RS, Pappenreiter P, Zwicker J, Smrzka D, Pruckner C, Kolar P, Bernacchi S, Seifert AH, Krajete A, Bach W, Peckmann J, Paulik C, Firneis MG, Schleper C, Rittmann SKR.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-018-02876-y	2018
Phylogeny	Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system.	Takai K, Inoue A, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-4-1089	2002

References

#5251	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14208
#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 )
#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) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Methanothermococcus okinawensis (DSM 14208, JCM 11175, IH1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000179575

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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