KEGG   GENOME: Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus
Entry
T00009            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
mth
Name
Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus Delta H
Category
Reference genome; Type strain
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:187420
  Lineage
Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanomada group; Methanobacteria; Methanobacteriales; Methanobacteriaceae; Methanothermobacter
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000008645.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 289
Keywords
Autotrophic methanogen
Comment
Lithoautotrophic, thermophilic archaeon.
Conserves energy by using H2 to reduce CO2 to CH4 and synthesizes all of its cellular components from these same gaseous substrates plus N2 or NH4+ and inorganic salts.
Isolated in 1971 from sewage sludge in Urbana, Illinois.
Chromosome
Circular
  Sequence
GB:AE000666
  Length
1751377
Statistics
Number of nucleotides:       1751377
Number of protein genes:        1869
Number of RNA genes:              47
Created
1997
Reference
PMID:9371463
  Authors
Smith DR, Doucette-Stamm LA, Deloughery C, Lee H, Dubois J, Aldredge T, Bashirzadeh R, Blakely D, Cook R, Gilbert K, et al.
  Title
Complete genome sequence of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum deltaH: functional analysis and comparative genomics.
  Journal
J Bacteriol 179:7135-55 (1997)
DOI:10.1128/JB.179.22.7135-7155.1997
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