Methanoculleus bourgensis (DSM 8220, EBac)

Name: Methanoculleus bourgensis (DSM 8220, EBac)
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BacDive ID 7019

Type strain

Strain Designation EBac

Culture col. no. DSM 8220 EBac

NCBI tax ID(s) 83986

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- K.-H. Blotevogel, Univ. Oldenburg, Germany; EBac <- E. Springer {1992}

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Methanoculleus bourgensis EBac is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from laboratory biogas fermentor.

anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403951

DSM 8220

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class "Methanomicrobia"

Order Methanomicrobiales

Family Methanomicrobiaceae

Genus Methanoculleus

Species Methanoculleus bourgensis

Full scientific name Methanoculleus bourgensis corrig. (Ollivier et al. 1986) Maestrojuán et al. 1990

Synonyms (5)

Methanogenium bourgense
Methanogenium olentangyi
Methanoculleus oldenburgensis
Methanoculleus olentangyi
Methanoculleus bourgense

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanoculleus bourgensis** (4)	Type strain
7016	M. bourgensis MS2, DSM 3045, ATCC 43281, OCM 15 (type strain)
7015	M. bourgensis RC/ER, DSM 2772, ATCC 35293, OCM 52
7017	M. bourgensis LX1, DSM 4307, ATCC 43575, OCM 24
7018	M. bourgensis CB 1, DSM 6216

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3209	METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 119)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 119) Composition: NaHCO3 3.98804 g/l Na-formate 1.99402 g/l Na-acetate 0.997009 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.498504 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.498504 g/l KH2PO4 0.498504 g/l NH4Cl 0.398804 g/l NaCl 0.398804 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.398804 g/l Yeast extract 0.199402 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0498504 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00199402 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Isobutyric acid DL-2-Methylbutyric acid Valeric acid Isovaleric acid H2SO4 Sludge Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
3209	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

3209

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Bioreactor
#Engineered	#Laboratory

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3209	laboratory biogas fermentor	Oldenburg	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3209	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#3209	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 8220
#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 )
#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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