Methanocatella gottschalkii HO

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Introduction

Methanocatella gottschalkii HOT (formerly known as Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii) is a type strain isolated from the enrichment of horse faeces[1]. This methanogen, along with Methanobrevibacter ruminantium, comprises about 74% of total archaeal OTUs from rumen samples collected across geographical regions, hosts, and diets [2]. This universality and limited diversity could make it possible to mitigate methane emissions by developing strategies that target the few dominant methanogens.

Global Methane Hub Metadata

Origin: Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Germany
Sequenced by: Plasmidsaurus, ONT sequencing
Assembled by: Christian Heryakusuma
Methylome called by: William G. Alexander
Methyltransferases cloned by: Roy Rodriguez Carrero
MIC and Culturing Conditions by: Christian Heryakusuma
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Genome

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DefenseFinder Results

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Methylome

#motif methylCounts totalCounts %motifsMethyl
C(6mA)YNNNNNRTTG 1495 1558 95.96
CA(6mA)YNNNNNRTG 1522 1558 97.69

The methylome was analyzed using MIJAMP[3]. 4mC and 5mC methylation motifs were not present in this isolate.

Methylating E. coli

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Culturing Conditions

M. gottschalkii HO is cultivated in GMH-VT2 medium at 37°C and 50 rpm with a 30 psig gas mixture of H2:CO2 (80:20, v/v) as an energy substrate.

Antimicrobial MIC Tests

Antibiotics Concentration
Liquid Solid
Sodium sulfite 0.5 mM 0.3 mM
Mevinolin 40 μM 20 μM
5-fluoroorotic acid (5-FOA) Insensitive Insensitive
8-azahypoxanthine (8-AH) Insensitive Insensitive
6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) Insensitive Insensitive
5-fluorouracil (5-FU) 0.25 mg/mL 0.15 mg/mL
Sodium 2-bromoethanesulfonate (BES) 2 mM 1 mM

Protocols

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Transformation Results

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  1. ↑ Miller, T. L. (2002). "Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (3): 819–822. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-3-819.
  2. ↑ Henderson, G., Cox, F., Ganesh, S. et al. Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range. Sci Rep 5, 14567 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14567.
  3. ↑ Alyssa K Tidwell, Evelyn Faust, Carrie A Eckert, Adam M Guss, William G Alexander, Discovering methylated DNA motifs in bacterial nanopore sequencing data with MIJAMP, Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 52, 2025, kuaf022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jimb/kuaf022.