Methanosarcina baltica, sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from the Gotland Deep of the Baltic Sea

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-110

  Von Klein, Dominique ^a   Arab, Hocine ^a   Völker, Horst ^a   Thomm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Gotland Deep; Marine sediments; Methanogens; Methanosarcina; Psychrotolerant

Indexed keywords

METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINA BALTICA;

ARCHAEAL RNA; METHANOL; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHANOSARCINA; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHANOL; METHANOSARCINA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036547567     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100234     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS (1979) Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 43:260-296
2. Bange HW, Bartell UH, Rapsomanikis S, Andrae MO (1994) Methane in the Baltic and North Sea and a reassessment of the marine emissions of methane. Global Biogeochem Cycles 8:465-480
3. Blotevogel K-H, Fischer U (1989) Transfer of Methanococcus frisius to the genus Methanosarcina as Methanosarcina frisia comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 39:91-92
4. Böck A., Kandler O (1985) Antibiotic sensitivity of archaebacteria. In: Woese CR, Wolfe RS (eds) Archaebacteria. Academic, New York, pp 525-544
5. Boone DR, Whitman WB, Rouvière P (1993) Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens. In: Ferry JG (ed) Methanogenesis. Chapman and Hall, pp 35-80
6. Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y (2001) Order II Methanosarcinales. In: Boone DR, Castenholz GM (ed) Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, Vol I, Springer, New York, pp 268-275
7. DeLong E (1992) Archaea in coastal marine environments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:5685-5689
8. Felsenstein J (1989) PHYLIP: phylogeny inference package (version 3.2). Cladistics 5:164-166
9. Franzmann PD, Springer N, Ludwig W, Conway de Macario E, Rohde M (1992) A methanogenic archaeon from Ace Lake, Antarctica: Methanococcoides burtonii sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 15:573-581
10. 2-using methanogen from Ace Lake, Antarctica. Int J Syst Bacteriol 47:1068-1072
11. Garcia JL, Patel BK, Ollivier B (2000) Taxonomy, phylogenetic and ecological diversity of methanogenic archaea. Anaerobe 6:1205-1226
12. Garcia-Rodriguez, JA, Garcia-Sanchez JE, Munoz-Bellido JL (1995) Antimicrobial resistance in anaerobic bacteria: current situation. Anaerobe 1:69-80
13. Holmer M, Kristensen E (1994) Coexistence of sulfate reduction and methane production in an organic-rich sediment. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 107:177-184
14. Huber H, Thomm M, König H, Thies G, Stetter KO (1982) Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus, a novel thermophilic lithotrophic methanogen. Arch Microbiol 132:47-50
15. Huber R, William T, Huber D, Trincone A, Burggraf S, König H, Rachel R, Rockinger J, Fricke H, Stetter KO (1992) Aquifex pyrophilus gen nov. sp nov, represents a novel group of marine hyperthermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 15:340-351
16. Lyimo TJ, Pol A, Op den Camp HJM, Harhangi HR, Vogels GD (2000) Methanosarcina semesiae sp nov., a dimethylsulfide-utilizing methanogen from mangrove sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50:171-180
17. Maestrojuan GA, Boone JN, Mah RA, Menaia JAGF, Sachs MS, Boone DR (1992) Taxonomy and halotolerance of mesophilic Methanosarcina strains: assignment of strains to species, and synonymy of Methanosarcina mazei and Methanosarcina frisia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 42:561-567
18. Mah RA, Kuhn DA (1984) Transfer of the type species of the genus Methanococcus to the genus Methanosarcina, naming it Methanosarcina mazei (Barker 1936) comb. nov. et emend., and conservation of the genus Methanococcus with Methanococcus vannielii as the type species. Int J Syst Bacteriol 34:263-265
19. Matthäus W (1996) Temperatur, Salzgehalt, Dichte. In: G. Rheinheimer (ed) Meereskunde der Ostsee. Springer, New York, pp 75-81
20. Ni S, Woese CR, Aldrich HC, Boone DR (1994) Transfer of Methanolobus siciliae to the genus Methanosarcina, naming it Methanosarcina siciliae, and emendation of the genus Methanosarcina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 44:357-359
21. Olsen GJ (1987) The earliest phylogenetic branchings: comparing rDNA-based evolutionary trees inferred with various techniques, Cold Spring Harbor Symp Quant Biol 52:825-838
22. Oremland RS, Boone DR (1994) Methanolobus taylorii sp nov., a new methylotrophic, estuarine methanogen. Int J Syst Bacteriol 44:573-575
23. Piker L, Schmaljohann R, Imhoff J-F (1998) Dissimilatory sulfate reduction and methane production in Gotland Deep sediments (Baltic Sea) during a transition period from oxic to anoxic bottom water (1993-1996). Aquat Microb Ecol 14:183-193
24. Schmaljohann, R., Piker L, Imhoff J-F (1998) The distribution of methane and hydrogen sulfide in basin sediments of the central and southern Baltic Sea. Meyniana 50:191-211
25. Sowers KR, Baron SF, Ferry JG (1984) Methanosarcina acetivorans sp nov., an acetotrophic methane-producing bacterium isolated from marine sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 47:971-978
26. Sowers, K, Boone JE, Gunsalus RP (1993) Disaggregation of Methanosarcina spp and growth as single cells at elevated osmolarity. Appl Environ Microbiol 59:3832-3839
27. Wildgruber G, Thomm M, König H, Ober K, Ricchiuto T, Stetter KO (1982) Methanoplanus limicola, a plate-shaped methanogen representing a novel family, the Methanoplanaceae. Arch Microbiol 132:31-36
28. Zhilina TN, Zavarzin GA (1987) Methanosarcina vacuolata sp. nov., a vacuolated Methanosarcina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 37:281-283
29. Zhilina TN, Zavarzin GA (1991) Low temperature methane production by a pure culture of Methanosarcina sp. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 317:1242-1245