Species code:	METTH
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanobacteria; Methanobacteriales; Methanobacteriaceae; Methanothermobacter (TaxID: 187420) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Lithoautotrophic, thermophilic archaeon that grows at temperatures ranging from 40 to 70 degrees Celsius and optimally at 65 degrees Celsius. Requires only carbon dioxide, hydrogen and salt for growth. Ubiquitous in anaerobic environments.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins: 1
Statistics:	Number of METTH entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 1869 (595 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1274 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE000666 (circular; 1,751,377 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
References	[1] MEDLINE=98037514; PubMed=9371463; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Smith D.R., Doucette-Stamm L.A., Deloughery C., Lee H.-M., Dubois J., Aldredge T., Bashirzadeh R., Blakely D., Cook R., Gilbert K., Harrison D., Hoang L., Keagle P., Lumm W., Pothier B., Qiu D., Spadafora R., Vicare R., Wang Y., Wierzbowski J., Gibson R., Jiwani N., Caruso A., Bush D., Safer H., Patwell D., Prabhakar S., McDougall S., Shimer G., Goyal A., Pietrovski S., Church G.M., Daniels C.J., Mao J.-I., Rice P., Noelling J., Reeve J.N. ; "Complete genome sequence of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum deltaH: functional analysis and comparative genomics."; J. Bacteriol. 179:7135-7155(1997).
Web links	Official genome site(s): http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~genomes/mthermo/ Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Archaea&GLgenus=Methanobacterium&GLspecies=thermoautotrophicum&GLstrain=delta-H GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mthe_DELTAH Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/archaea/Methanobacterium_thermoautotrophicum.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p289_Met_therm TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntmt01 EBI Proteome Analysis page Karyn's Genomes

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