Methanolobus profundi (DSM 21213, NBRC 104158, MobM)

Name: Methanolobus profundi (DSM 21213, NBRC 104158, MobM)
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BacDive ID 7081

Type strain

Strain Designation MobM

Culture col. no. DSM 21213 NBRC 104158 MobM

NCBI tax ID(s) 487685

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- H. Mochimaru, Natl. Inst. Advanced Industrial Sci. and Technol., Tsukuba, Japan; MobM <- H. Mochimaru {2003}

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Methanolobus profundi MobM is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from deep subsurface sediments from a natural gas field filled with ancient seawater.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397727

NBRC 104158,DSM 21213

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanosarcinaceae

Genus Methanolobus

Species Methanolobus profundi

Full scientific name Methanolobus profundi Mochimaru et al. 2009

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15580	METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaHCO3 4.89237 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 3.91389 g/l Methanol 3.87476 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 CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000978474 g/l FeSO4 x 7 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 (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89237e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89237e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89237e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95695e-05 g/l Folic acid 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)
15580	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

15580

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15580	deep subsurface sediments from a natural gas field filled with ancient seawater	Mobara	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB370245 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanolobus profundi from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	5

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15580	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15580	Methanolobus profundi gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB370245	1403		487685

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15580	42.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanolobus profundi sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen isolated from deep subsurface sediments in a natural gas field.	Mochimaru H, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Imachi H, Nakamura K, Sakata S, Kamagata Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.001677-0	2009

References

#15580	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21213
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Methanolobus profundi (DSM 21213, NBRC 104158, MobM)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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