Methanothrix thermoacetophila Z-517 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from mud, thermal Khlorid Lake.
anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea
SI-ID 47867
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| 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) |
| BacDive ID | Other strains from Methanothrix thermoacetophila (2) | Type strain |
|---|---|---|
| 7048 | M. thermoacetophila CALS-1, DSM 3870 | |
| 7050 | M. thermoacetophila PT, DSM 6194, JCM 14653, NBRC 101360 |
| Cat1 | Cat2 | Cat3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #Environmental | #Aquatic | #Lake (large) | |
| #Environmental | #Terrestrial | #Mud (Sludge) |
| @ref | Sample type | Geographic location | Country | Country ISO 3 Code | Continent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1818 | mud, thermal Khlorid Lake | Kamchatka | USSR | RUS | Asia |
Global distribution of 16S sequence LN868388 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanothrix thermoacetophila subclade from Microbeatlas 
 Aquatic Samples |
54 |
 Soil Samples |
1 |
 Animal Samples |
3 |
 Plant Samples |
|
| Total Samples | 58 |
| Topic | Title | Authors | Journal | DOI | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Methane production by Methanothrix thermoacetophila via direct interspecies electron transfer with Geobacter metallireducens. | Zhou J, Smith JA, Li M, Holmes DE. | mBio | 10.1128/mbio.00360-23 | 2023 |  | |
| Analysis of Mechanisms for Electron Uptake by Methanothrix harundinacea 6Ac During Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer. | Wang L, Shan X, Xu Y, Xi Q, Jiang H, Li X. | Int J Mol Sci | 10.3390/ijms26094195 | 2025 | | |
| Metabolism | The Structure of the Dimeric State of IscU Harboring Two Adjacent [2Fe-2S] Clusters Provides Mechanistic Insights into Cluster Conversion to [4Fe-4S]. | Kunichika K, Nakamura R, Fujishiro T, Takahashi Y. | Biochemistry | 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00112 | 2021 | |
| Sheaths are diverse and abundant cell surface layers in archaea. | Medvedeva S, Borrel G, Gribaldo S. | ISME J | 10.1093/ismejo/wrae225 | 2024 | | |
| Metabolism | Acetate and Acetyl-CoA Metabolism of ANME-2 Anaerobic Archaeal Methanotrophs. | Ouboter HT, Arshad A, Berger S, Saucedo Sanchez JG, Op den Camp HJM, Jetten MSM, Welte CU, Kurth JM. | Appl Environ Microbiol | 10.1128/aem.00367-23 | 2023 | |
| Diversity and function of methyl-coenzyme M reductase-encoding archaea in Yellowstone hot springs revealed by metagenomics and mesocosm experiments. | Lynes MM, Krukenberg V, Jay ZJ, Kohtz AJ, Gobrogge CA, Spietz RL, Hatzenpichler R. | ISME Commun | 10.1038/s43705-023-00225-9 | 2023 | | |
| Genetics | Magnetite drives microbial community restructuring and stimulates aceticlastic methanogenesis of type II Methanosarcina in mangrove sediments. | Zhou J, Zhang CJ, Zou D, Gu C, Li M. | Microbiome | 10.1186/s40168-025-02157-z | 2025 | |
| Alleviating glucose repression and enhancing respiratory capacity to increase itaconic acid production. | Xu Y, Li Z. | Synth Syst Biotechnol | 10.1016/j.synbio.2022.12.007 | 2023 | | |
| Phylogeny | The genus name Methanothrix Huser et al. 1983 and the species combination Methanothrix soehngenii Huser et al. 1983 do not contravene Rule 31a and are not to be considered as rejected names, the genus name Methanosaeta Patel and Sprott 1990 refers to the same taxon as Methanothrix soehngenii Huser et al. 1983 and the species combination Methanothrix thermophila Kamagata et al. 1992 is rejected: Supplementary information to Opinion 75. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. | Tindall BJ. | Int J Syst Evol Microbiol | 10.1099/ijs.0.069252-0 | 2014 | |
| The robustness of porin-cytochrome gene clusters from Geobacter metallireducens in extracellular electron transfer. | Zhuo S, Jiang Y, Qi L, Hu Y, Jiang Z, Dong Y, Shi L. | mBio | 10.1128/mbio.00580-24 | 2024 | | |
| Nitrogenase Cofactor Maturase NifB Isolated from Transgenic Rice is Active in FeMo-co Synthesis. | He W, Buren S, Baysal C, Jiang X, Capell T, Christou P, Rubio LM. | ACS Synth Biol | 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00194 | 2022 | | |
| Phenotypic and genomic characterization of the first alkaliphilic aceticlastic methanogens and proposal of a novel genus Methanocrinis gen.nov. within the family Methanotrichaceae. | Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Slobodkin AI, Sorokin DY. | Front Microbiol | 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1233691 | 2023 | | |
| Phylogeny | Dynamics of bacterial and archaeal communities during horse bedding and green waste composting. | Grenier V, Gonzalez E, Brereton NJ, Pitre FE. | PeerJ | 10.7717/peerj.15239 | 2023 | |
| Phylogeny | Metabolic Potential of As-yet-uncultured Archaeal Lineages of Candidatus Hydrothermarchaeota Thriving in Deep-sea Metal Sulfide Deposits. | Kato S, Nakano S, Kouduka M, Hirai M, Suzuki K, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Suzuki Y. | Microbes Environ | 10.1264/jsme2.me19021 | 2019 | |
| Metabolism | Methanogenic archaea use a bacteria-like methyltransferase system to demethoxylate aromatic compounds. | Kurth JM, Nobu MK, Tamaki H, de Jonge N, Berger S, Jetten MSM, Yamamoto K, Mayumi D, Sakata S, Bai L, Cheng L, Nielsen JL, Kamagata Y, Wagner T, Welte CU. | ISME J | 10.1038/s41396-021-01025-6 | 2021 | |
| Enzymology | [Species composition of methane bacteria in fermented cattle manure]. | Nozhevnikova AN, Zhilina TN, Sokolova TG. | Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol | 1988 | | |
| Metabolism | Molecular Details of the Frataxin-Scaffold Interaction during Mitochondrial Fe-S Cluster Assembly. | Campbell CJ, Pall AE, Naik AR, Thompson LN, Stemmler TL. | Int J Mol Sci | 10.3390/ijms22116006 | 2021 | |
| 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 | |
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