Name: Methanomethylovorans thermophila L2FAW
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7054

Type strain:

Species: Methanomethylovorans thermophila

Strain Designation: L2FAW

Culture col. no.: DSM 17232, ATCC BAA-1173, NBRC 107638

Strain history: <- B. Jiang, Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands; L2FAW <- B. Jiang {2003}

NCBI tax ID(s): 286152 (species)

SI-ID 281453

ATCC BAA-1173, DSM 17232

Section

Methanomethylovorans thermophila L2FAW is an anaerobe, thermophilic archaeon that was isolated from thermophilic sludge of pilot bioreactor.

anaerobe
thermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	"Methanomicrobia"
	Order	*Methanosarcinales*
	Family	*Methanosarcinaceae*
	Genus	*Methanomethylovorans*
	Species	**Methanomethylovorans thermophila**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanomethylovorans thermophila Jiang et al. 2005

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Incubation period

3-7 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

SYNTROPHOBACTER (MPOB) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 684)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #6828]			growth	50 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #6828]	Sample type/isolated from	thermophilic sludge of pilot bioreactor
[Ref.: #6828]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Balk
[Ref.: #6828]	Country	Netherlands
[Ref.: #6828]	Country ISO 3 Code	NLD
[Ref.: #6828]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Bioreactor	-
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY672821 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanomethylovorans thermophila from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	10
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	11

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #6828]	Methanomethylovorans thermophila 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY672821	1363	ENA	286152 tax ID

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GC-content

37.6 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 17232, ATCC BAA-1173, NBRC 107638

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SI-ID 281453

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanomethylovorans thermophila sp. nov., a thermophilic, methylotrophic methanogen from an anaerobic reactor fed with methanol.	Jiang B, Parshina SN, van Doesburg W, Lomans BP, Stams AJM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63818-0	2005	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17232

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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 )

#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 .

#76511

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID281453.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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