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Abstract

A thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic methanogen, strain RMAS, was isolated from gas-associated formation water of a gas-producing well in a natural gas field in Japan. Strain RMAS grew solely on H/CO but required Casamino acids, tryptone, yeast extract or vitamins for growth. Growth of strain RMAS was stimulated by acetate. Cells were non-motile, straight rods (0.5×3.5–10.5 µm) and occurred singly or in pairs. Bundles of fimbriae occurred at both poles of cells and the cell wall was thick (approximately 21 nm, as revealed by ultrathin section electron microscopy). Strain RMAS grew at 45–80 °C (optimum, 70 °C), at pH 5.8–8.7 (optimum, pH 6.9–7.7) and with 0.001–20 g NaCl l (optimum, 2.5 g NaCl l). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that ΔH was most closely related to the isolate (95.7 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). On the basis of morphological, phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics, it is clear that strain RMAS represents a novel species of the genus , for which we propose the name sp. nov. The type strain is RMAS ( = DSM 23052 = JCM 16532 = NBRC 106236).

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This study was supported by the:
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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