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]
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| Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Methanobacteria |
| Order: | Methanobacteriales |
| Family: | Methanobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Methanothermobacter Wasserfallen et al. 2000 |
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| Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (Zeikus & Wolfe 1972) Wasserfallen et al. 2000
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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
- ^ a b See the NCBI webpage on Methanothermobacter. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ 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.
- ^ J.P. Euzéby. "Methanothermobacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^ "The LTP". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "LTP_06_2022 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "ar53_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108016. PMC 10579436.
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. 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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