Methanothrix thermoacetophila (DSM 3870, CALS-1)

Name: Methanothrix thermoacetophila (DSM 3870, CALS-1)
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BacDive ID 7048

Type strain

Strain Designation CALS-1

Culture col. no. DSM 3870 CALS-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 2224

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- S. H. Zinder, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; CALS-1

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Methanothrix thermoacetophila CALS-1 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from thermophilic anaerobic bioreactor.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47769

DSM 3870

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanotrichaceae

Genus Methanothrix

Species Methanothrix thermoacetophila

Full scientific name Methanothrix thermoacetophila corrig. Nozhevnikova and Chudina 1988

Synonyms (4)

Methanothrix thermophila
Methanothrix thermoacetophilia
Methanosaeta thermophila
Methanosaeta thermoacetophila

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanothrix thermoacetophila** (2)	Type strain
7049	M. thermoacetophila Z-517, DSM 4774, VKM B-1831 (type strain)
7050	M. thermoacetophila PT, DSM 6194, JCM 14653, NBRC 101360

Morphology

Colony morphology

1490

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1490

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Bioreactor
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1490	thermophilic anaerobic bioreactor	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1490	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Methanothrix thermophila 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	M59141	1422		2224
1490	Methanothrix thermoacetophila strain CALS-1 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AH003995	739		2224

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Methanogenesis from acetate by cell-free extracts of the thermophilic acetotrophic methanogen Methanothrix thermophila CALS-1	Allen GWJ, Zinder SH	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s002030050384	1996
Phylogeny	Characterization of three thermophilic strains of Methanothrix ("Methanosaeta") thermophila sp. nov. and rejection of Methanothrix ("Methanosaeta") thermoacetophila.	Kamagata Y, Kawasaki H, Oyaizu H, Nakamura K, Mikami E, Endo G, Koga Y, Yamasato K	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-42-3-463	1992

References

#1490	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3870
#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 )
#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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Methanothrix thermoacetophila (DSM 3870, CALS-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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