Methanothermobacter
| Methanothermobacter | |
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| Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus | |
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Methanobacteriati |
| Phylum: | Methanobacteriota |
| Class: | Methanobacteria |
| Order: | Methanobacteriales |
| Family: | Methanobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000 |
| Type species | |
| Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (Zeikus & Wolfe 1972) Wasserfallen et al. 2000 | |
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Methanothermobacter is a genus of archaeans in the family Methanobacteriaceae.[1] The species within this genus are thermophilic and grow best at temperatures between 55 °C and 65 °C. They are methanogens; they use carbon dioxide and hydrogen as substrates to produce methane for energy.[2]
Phylogeny
[edit]The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[1]
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Metabolism
[edit]The metabolism of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus has been reconstructed in the form of experimentally validated computer models for the two strains Z-245 and ΔH.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 C.L. Schoch. "Methanothermobacter". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
- ↑ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 241. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
- ↑ Methanothermobacter in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (2026). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 54 (D1): D884–D891. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
- ↑ "The LTPlus". The All-Species Living Tree Project. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ "LTP_all tree in newick format". The All-Species Living Tree Project. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ Rossello-Mora, Ramon; Viver, Tomeu; Palmer-Rodríguez, Pere; Westram, Ralf; Bustos-Caparros, Esteban; Gago, Joan Francisco; Gonzalez-Mendez, Jaime; Llabrés, Mercè; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Amann, Rudolf (22 April 2026). "A pipeline for improved 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny and diversity analyses of Bacteria and Archaea". Nature Portfolio. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-9370187/v1.
- ↑ "GTDB release 11-RS232". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2026.
- ↑ "ar53_r232.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2026.
- ↑ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2026.
- ↑ Casini, Isabella; McCubbin, Tim; Esquivel-Elizondo, Sofia; Luque, Guillermo G.; Evseeva, Daria; Fink, Christian; Beblawy, Sebastian; Youngblut, Nicholas D.; Aristilde, Ludmilla; Huson, Daniel H.; Dräger, Andreas; Ley, Ruth E.; Marcellin, Esteban; Angenent, Largus T.; Molitor, Bastian (2023). "An integrated systems-biology approach reveals differences in formate metabolism in the genus Methanothermobacter". iScience. 26 (10). Bibcode:2023iSci...26j8016C. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108016. PMC 10579436. PMID 37854702.
Further reading
[edit]Scientific journals
[edit]- Seifert, A.H.; Rittmann, S.; Herwig, C (20 July 2014). "Analysis of process related factors to increase volumetric productivity and quality of biomethane with Methanothermobacter marburgensis". Applied Energy. 132: 155–162. Bibcode:2014ApEn..132..155S. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.07.002.
- Wasserfallen A; Nolling J; Pfister P; Reeve J; et al. (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of 18 thermophilic Methanobacterium isolates supports the proposals to create a new genus, Methanothermobacter gen. nov., and to reclassify several isolates in three species, Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus comb. nov., Methanothermobacter wolfeii comb. nov. and Methanothermobacter marburgensis sp. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 43–53. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-1-43. PMID 10826786.
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