Name: Methanosarcina mazei DSM 4556
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7102

Type strain:

Species: Methanosarcina mazei

Culture col. no.: DSM 4556, ATCC 43573, OCM 34

Strain history: <- D.R. Boone, LYC

NCBI tax ID(s): 2209 (species)

SI-ID 47856

DSM 4556, ATCC 43573

Special Collections

DSMZ

Other strains from Methanosarcina mazei

Section

Methanosarcina mazei DSM 4556 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from alkaline mud, oil exploration drilling site.

anaerobe
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	*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.: #1716]

Culture medium

METHANOSARCINA BARKERI MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 120a)

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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.: #1716]			growth	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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Name of produced compound

disaggregating enzyme

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

[Ref.: #1716]	Sample type/isolated from	alkaline mud, oil exploration drilling site
[Ref.: #1716]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Hula swamp area of Galilee
[Ref.: #1716]	Country	Israel
[Ref.: #1716]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISR
[Ref.: #1716]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Industrial	#Oil reservoir
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Condition	#Alkaline	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB065296 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanosarcina from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3372
Soil Samples	2215
Animal Samples	684
Plant Samples	931
Total Samples	7202

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.: #20218]	Methanosarcina mazei gene for 16S rRNA	AB065296	1439	GenBank ENA	2209 tax ID	*

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #1716]

Culture collection no.

DSM 4556, ATCC 43573, OCM 34

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SI-ID 47856

References

#1716

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4556

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#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 .

#76557

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-ID47856.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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