Methanogenium cariaci (DSM 1497, ATCC 35093, JCM 10550)

Name: Methanogenium cariaci (DSM 1497, ATCC 35093, JCM 10550)
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BacDive ID 7032

Type strain

Strain Designation JR1

Culture col. no. DSM 1497 ATCC 35093 JCM 10550 OCM 155 JR1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1293041 2197

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- W. E. Balch, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, USA; JR1 <- J. A. Romesser; JCM <-- DSM 1497 <-- W. E. Balch <-- R. S. Wolfe and J. A. Romesser JR1.

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Methanogenium cariaci JR1 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 40869

ATCC 35093,DSM 1497,JCM 10550

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:33

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class "Methanomicrobia"

Order Methanomicrobiales

Family Methanomicrobiaceae

Genus Methanogenium

Species Methanogenium cariaci

Full scientific name Methanogenium cariaci Romesser et al. 1981

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
794	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)
794	positive	growth	21
67770	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
794	anaerobe
125439	obligate anaerobe	98.417

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		96.948

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
794	marine sediment	Cariaco Trench	Venezuela	VEN	Middle and South America
67770	Sediment	Cariaco Trench

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence FR733663 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanogenium cariaci subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	53
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	57

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
794	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	Methanogenium cariaci JCM 10550	contig		1293041.6		1293041	53.58
67770	ASM131594v1 assembly for Methanogenium cariaci JCM 10550	contig	GCA_001315945	1293041.7	2681813007	1293041	30.54

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Methanogenium cariaci 16S ribosomal RNA	M59130	1468		2197
794	Methanogenium cariaci partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM1497T	FR733663	1460		2197

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
794	51.6
67770	51.6	Buoyant density centrifugation (BD)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM131594v1 assembly for Methanogenium cariaci JCM 10550
NCBI: GCA_001315945

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	98.42	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	77.52	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	64.68	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.95	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Specific bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic communities in tidal-flat sediments along a vertical profile of several meters.	Wilms R, Sass H, Kopke B, Koster J, Cypionka H, Engelen B.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.72.4.2756-2764.2006	2006
Metabolism	N epsilon-acetyl-beta-lysine: an osmolyte synthesized by methanogenic archaebacteria.	Sowers KR, Robertson DE, Noll D, Gunsalus RP, Roberts MF.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.87.23.9083	1990
	Isolation and characterization of a novel thermophilic, freshwater methanogen.	Harris JE, Pinn PA, Davis RP.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.48.6.1123-1128.1984	1984
Metabolism	Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis by moderately acid-tolerant methanogens of a methane-emitting acidic peat.	Horn MA, Matthies C, Kusel K, Schramm A, Drake HL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.69.1.74-83.2003	2003
Phylogeny	Diversity, abundance, and activity of archaeal populations in oil-contaminated groundwater accumulated at the bottom of an underground crude oil storage cavity.	Watanabe K, Kodama Y, Hamamura N, Kaku N.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.68.8.3899-3907.2002	2002
Metabolism	Flexible community structure correlates with stable community function in methanogenic bioreactor communities perturbed by glucose.	Fernandez AS, Hashsham SA, Dollhopf SL, Raskin L, Glagoleva O, Dazzo FB, Hickey RF, Criddle CS, Tiedje JM.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.66.9.4058-4067.2000	2000
	Compilation of small ribosomal subunit RNA structures.	Neefs JM, Van de Peer Y, De Rijk P, Chapelle S, De Wachter R.	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/21.13.3025	1993
Phylogeny	Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group.	Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS.	Microbiol Rev	10.1128/mr.43.2.260-296.1979	1979
	Recurrent Potential G-Quadruplex Sequences in Archaeal Genomes.	Chashchina GV, Shchyolkina AK, Kolosov SV, Beniaminov AD, Kaluzhny DN.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.647851	2021
	Neofunctionalization of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase into pyruvoyl-dependent L-ornithine and L-arginine decarboxylases is widespread in bacteria and archaea.	Li B, Liang J, Phillips MA, Michael AJ.	J Biol Chem	10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105005	2023

References

#794	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1497
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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 .
#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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Methanogenium cariaci (DSM 1497, ATCC 35093, JCM 10550)

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_001315945

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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