Methanobrevibacter thaueri
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Methanobrevibacter thaueri is an anaerobic , methanogenic archaeon that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract of many mammals. The specific epithet “thaueri” honors the German microbiologist Rudolf Thauer the Younger .
features
The anaerobic coccus is 0.6–1.2 µm long and 0.5 µm wide. He's gram positive . Its therefore thick, multi-layered cell wall is made up of pseudopeptidoglycan . It usually occurs in neutral solutions . Its temperature optimum is 37–39 ° C. Cells of the type which adolescents in the rumen are catalase negative . It doesn't need any coenzymes .
properties
The organism utilizes hydrogen and carbon dioxide , which are excreted as metabolic products by other microorganisms in the intestinal flora. M. thaueri forms methane from this with energy gain . The archaeon is one of the hydrogenotrophic methane producers .
External system
The M. thaueri is an archaeaon of the Euryarchaeota . He belongs to the methane producers .
Web links
- Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego: data on the organism
- EOL : systematics
literature
- Terry L. Miller and Chu Zhao Ling: Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov. ; published in the International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology in 2002;
Individual evidence
- ^ Methanobrevibacter thaueri - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life. In: Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .