Name: Methanothermus sociabilis KF1-Fl
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7140

Type strain:

Species: Methanothermus sociabilis

Strain Designation: KF1-Fl

Culture col. no.: DSM 3496, JCM 10723, OCM 173

Strain history: DSM 3496 <-- K. O. Stetter KF1-Fl.

NCBI tax ID(s): 2181 (species)

SI-ID 47726

DSM 3496, JCM 10723

Section

Methanothermus sociabilis KF1-Fl is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from solfataric mud hole.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
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	*Methanobacteria*
	Order	*Methanobacteriales*
	Family	*Methanothermaceae*
	Genus	*Methanothermus*
	Species	**Methanothermus sociabilis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanothermus sociabilis Stetter 1986

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOTHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 203)

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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.: #1338]			growth	88 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

[Ref.: #1338]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic

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.: #1338]	Sample type/isolated from	solfataric mud hole
[Ref.: #1338]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kerlingarfjöll
[Ref.: #1338]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #1338]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #1338]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Solfataric waterhole
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kerlingarfjöll
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Mud (Sludge)
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Volcanic

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence HE654004 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanothermus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	35
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	140
Plant Samples
Total Samples	177

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.: #1338]	Methanothermus sociabilis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM 3496T	HE654004	1469	ENA	2181 tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Methanothermus sociabilis 16S small subunit ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF095273	1429	ENA	2181 tax ID

[Ref.: #1338]	GC-content	33.0 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	33 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	32.1 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 3496, JCM 10723, OCM 173

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SI-ID 47726

References

#1338

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3496

#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 .

#76594

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-ID47726.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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