Methanoculleus thermophilus (DSM 2624, ATCC 43577, OCM 6)

Name: Methanoculleus thermophilus (DSM 2624, ATCC 43577, OCM 6)
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BacDive ID 7023

Type strain

Strain Designation UCLA

Culture col. no. DSM 2624 ATCC 43577 OCM 6 UCLA

NCBI tax ID(s) 2200

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Methanoculleus thermophilus UCLA is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from thermophilic anaerobic sea kelp digester.

anaerobe thermophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47646

DSM 2624,ATCC 43577

@ref 20215

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

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class "Methanomicrobia"

Order Methanomicrobiales

Family Methanomicrobiaceae

Genus Methanoculleus

Species Methanoculleus thermophilus

Full scientific name Methanoculleus thermophilus corrig. (Rivard and Smith 1982) Maestrojuán et al. 1990

Synonyms (3)

Methanogenium thermophilicum
Methanogenium frittonii
Methanoculleus thermophilicus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanoculleus thermophilus** (4)	Type strain
7022	M. thermophilus CR-1, DSM 2373, ATCC 33837, OCM 174, VKM ... (type strain)
7024	M. thermophilus Ratisbona, DSM 2640
7025	M. thermophilus FR-4, DSM 2832, OCM 200
7026	M. thermophilus TCI, DSM 3915, OCM 71

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1171	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
1171	positive	growth	55	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1171

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Anaerobic digestor
#Host	#Algae	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1171	thermophilic anaerobic sea kelp digester	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1171	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)
1171	59.7
1171	57.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1171	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2624
#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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