Name: Methanosarcina mazei G1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7100

Type strain:

Species: Methanosarcina mazei

Strain Designation: G1

Culture col. no.: DSM 3338, OCM 87

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

NCBI tax ID(s): 2209 (species)

SI-ID 47717

DSM 3338

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Methanosarcina mazei G1 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from sewage mud.

anaerobe
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	*Methanosarcina*
	Species	**Methanosarcina mazei**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanosarcina mazei corrig. (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984

	Synonym	Methanosarcina frisia
	Synonym	Methanococcus frisius
	Synonym	Methanosarcina mazeii
	Synonym	Methanococcus mazei

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #1358]

Culture medium

METHANOSARCINA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 120)

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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.: #1358]			growth	35 °C

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.: #1358]	Sample type/isolated from	sewage mud
[Ref.: #1358]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Göttingen
[Ref.: #1358]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #1358]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #1358]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Waste	#Wastewater
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)

What are isolation sources categories?

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

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GC-content

36.1 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #1358]

Culture collection no.

DSM 3338, OCM 87

[Ref.: #76555]

SI-ID 47717

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 )

#76555

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-ID47717.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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