Methanosphaera

Methanosphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Methanobacteria
Order:	Methanobacteriales
Family:	Methanobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methanosphaera Miller and Wolin 1985
Type species
Methanosphaera stadtmanae corrig. Miller & Wolin 1985
Species
M. cuniculi "M. massiliense" M. stadtmanae

Methanosphaera is a genus of Archaea within the family Methanobacteriaceae. ^[1] It was distinguished from other genera within Methanobacteriaceae in 1985 on the basis of the oligonucleotide sequence of its 16S RNA. ^[2] Like other archaea within Methanobacteriaceae, those of Methanosphaera are methanogens, but while most use formate to reduce carbon dioxide, those of Methanosphaera use hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane. ^[3]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[4] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). ^[1]

53 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226 [5] [6] [7]
Methanosphaera M. cuniculi Biavati, Vast & Ferry 1990 "Ca. M. massiliense" Pilliol et al. 2024 M. stadtmanae corrig. Miller & Wolin 1985

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Methanosphaera". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. David R Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2001). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume I: The Archaea and the Deeply Branching Phototrophic Bacteria (2 ed.). Springer. p. 227. ISBN   978-1-4419-3159-7 . Retrieved 2016-07-24.
3. Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer. pp. 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN   978-0-387-30743-5.
4. Methanosphaera in LPSN ; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Peinado-Olarte, Rosa L.; Göker, Markus (7 January 2022). "TYGS and LPSN: a database tandem for fast and reliable genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes". Nucleic Acids Research. 50 (D1): D801 –D807. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab902 .
5. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
6. "ar53_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
7. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

• F. Fricke, Wolfgang; Seedorf, Henning; Henne, Anke; Kruer, Markus; Liesegang, Heiko; Hedderich, Reiner; Gottschalk, Gerhard; K. Thauer, Rudolf (January 2006). "The Genome Sequence of Methanosphaera stadtmanae Reveals Why This Human Intestinal Archaeon Is Restricted to Methanol and H2 for Methane Formation and ATP Synthesis". Journal of Bacteriology. 188 (2): 642–658. doi:10.1128/jb.188.2.642-658.2006. PMC   1347301 . PMID   16385054.
• Miller TL; Wolin MJ (1985). "Methanosphaera stadtmaniae gen. nov., sp. nov.: a species that forms methane by reducing methanol with hydrogen". Arch. Microbiol. 141 (2): 116–122. Bibcode:1985ArMic.141..116M. doi:10.1007/BF00423270. PMID   3994486. S2CID   35768199.
• Lecours, Pascale Blais; Marsolais, David; Cormier, Yvon; Berberi, Marie; Hache, Chantal; Bourdages, Raymond; Duchaine, Caroline (February 3, 2014). "Increased Prevalence of Methanosphaera stadtmanae in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases". PLOS ONE. 9 (2) e87734. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...987734B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087734 . PMC   3912014 . PMID   24498365.
• Bang, Corrina; Weidenbach, Katrin; Gutsmann, Thomas; Heine, Holger; Schmitz, Ruth (June 10, 2014). "The Intestinal Archaea Methanosphaera stadtmanae and Methanobrevibacter smithii Activate Human Dendritic Cells". PLOS ONE. 9 (6) e99411. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...999411B. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099411 . PMC   4051749 . PMID   24915454.