Methanosarcina mazei (DSM 3338, OCM 87, G1)

Name: Methanosarcina mazei (DSM 3338, OCM 87, G1)
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BacDive ID 7100

Type strain

Strain Designation G1

Culture col. no. DSM 3338 OCM 87 G1

NCBI tax ID(s) 2209

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- M. P. Bryant, University of Illinois, Departments of Dairy Science and Microbiology, Urbana, USA; G1 <- M. P. Bryant {1966}

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Methanosarcina mazei G1 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from sewage mud.

anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47717

DSM 3338

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:23

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanosarcinaceae

Genus Methanosarcina

Species Methanosarcina mazei

Full scientific name Methanosarcina mazei corrig. (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984

Synonyms (4)

Methanosarcina frisia
Methanococcus frisius
Methanosarcina mazeii
Methanococcus mazei

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanosarcina mazei** (13)	Type strain
7096	M. mazei S-6, DSM 2053, ATCC 43572, OCM 26, DSM 108209 (type strain)
7097	M. mazei Z-558, DSM 2244, OCM 92
7098	M. mazei MC3, DSM 2907, OCM 192
7099	M. mazei C16, DSM 3318, ATCC 43340, OCM 98
7101	M. mazei Gö1, DSM 3647, ATCC BAA-159, JCM 11833, ...
7102	M. mazei DSM 4556, ATCC 43573, OCM 34
7103	M. mazei T18, DSM 6300
7104	M. mazei Equi, DSM 7058, OCM 61
7105	M. mazei Gö1, DSM 7222
7106	M. mazei TMA, DSM 9195, JCM 9314, NBRC 101201
7107	M. mazei SarPi, DSM 10132
24166	M. mazei O1M9701, DSM 27785, OCM 748
164152	M. mazei JCM 31898, VKM B-2370

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1358	METHANOSARCINA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 120)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOSARCINA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 120) Composition: Methanol 15.4688 g/l Na-acetate 2.44141 g/l NaCl 2.19727 g/l NaHCO3 1.95312 g/l Casitone 1.95312 g/l Yeast extract 1.95312 g/l NH4Cl 0.488281 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.488281 g/l K2HPO4 0.341797 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.292969 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.292969 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.244141 g/l KH2PO4 0.224609 g/l HCl 0.00244141 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00195312 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00146484 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000488281 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000185547 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.76563e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.76563e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.83594e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.88281e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.88281e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.88281e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.88281e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.88281e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.88281e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.51562e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.34375e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95312e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95312e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.85938e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.95313e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.76563e-07 g/l H2SO4 Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
1358	positive	growth	35	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1358

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1358	sewage mud	Göttingen	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1358	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

1358

GC-content (mol%)36.1

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1358	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3338
#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 )
#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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