Methanosarcina baltica (DSM 14042, JCM 11281, GS1-A)

Name: Methanosarcina baltica (DSM 14042, JCM 11281, GS1-A)
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BacDive ID 7128

Type strain

Strain Designation GS1-A

Culture col. no. DSM 14042 JCM 11281 GS1-A

NCBI tax ID(s) 109046

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- M. Thomm, Univ. Kiel, Germany; GS1-A <- H. Arab and M. Thomm {1993} JCM <-- M. Thomm GS1-A.

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Methanosarcina baltica GS1-A is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 100750

DSM 14042,JCM 11281

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:34

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanosarcinaceae

Genus Methanosarcina

Species Methanosarcina baltica

Full scientific name Methanosarcina baltica von Klein et al. 2002

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5224	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 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 Methanol 0.387476 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)
5224	positive	growth	20
67770	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5224

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Latitude	Longitude
5224	marine sediment	Baltic Sea, Gotland Deep	International waters	57.3014	-20.1014 57.3014/-20.1014
67770	Sediment in the Gotland Deep of the Baltic Sea

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ238648 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanosarcina from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6
Soil Samples	0
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	6

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5224	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5224	Methanosarcina sp. partial 16S rRNA gene, strain GS1-A	AJ238648	1319		109046
124043	Methanosarcina baltica gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: DSM 14042.	AB973356	1409		109046

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanosarcina baltica, sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from the Gotland Deep of the Baltic Sea.	von Klein D, Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M	Extremophiles	10.1007/s007920100234	2002

References

#5224	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14042
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Methanosarcina baltica (DSM 14042, JCM 11281, GS1-A)

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

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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