Methanospirillum hungatei

From MicrobeWiki, the student-edited microbiology resource
Revision as of 15:12, 27 April 2010 by Hende232 (talk | contribs)

Classification

Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanomicrobia; Methanomicrobiales; Methanospirillaceae

Species

NCBI: Taxonomy

Methanospirillum hungatei

Description and Significance

Methanospirillum hungatei was first found in sewage sludge and was named in honor of R.E. Hungate. This genus and species name was first proposed in 1974 by Ferry et. al. The cultures are usually yellow in color. The cells are spiral shaped and range from 0.5-7.4 microns in diameter and 15 to several hundred microns long (Ferry et. al. 1974).


Genome Structure

Methanospirillum hungatei has circular chromosomes of length 3544738; it has 3139 gene proteins and 66 RNA genes (Kanehisa Labs). The guanine and cytosine content is 45% for this organism (Ferry et. al. 1974).

Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

Ecology and Pathogenesis

References

1: NCBI. “Methanospirillum hungatei.” Taxonomy Browser.

2: Ferry, J.G., Smith, P.H., and Wolfe, R.S. “Methanospirillum, a New Genus of Methanogenic Bacteria,and Characterization of Methanospirillum hungatii sp.nov.” International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1974. Volume 24. p. 465-469.

3: Migas, J., Anderson, K.L., Cruden, D.L., and Markovetz, J. “Chemotaxis in Methanospirillum hungatei.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 1989. Volume 55. p. 264-265.

4: Kanehisa Laboratories in the Bioinformatics Center of Kyoto University and the Human Genome Center of the University of Tokyo. “Methanospirillum hungatei.” Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes.

5: Beveridge, T.J., Sprott, G.D., Whippey, P. “Ultrastructure, inferred porosity, and gram-staining character of Methanospirillum hungatei filament termini describe a unique cell permeability for this archaeobacterium.” Journal of Bacteriology. 1991. Volume 173. p. 130-140. PMCID: PMC207166.

6: Xu, W., Mulhern, P.J., Blackford, B.L., Jericho, M.H., Firtel, M., Beveridge, J. "Modeling and Measuring the Elastic Properties of an Archaeal Surface, the Sheath of Methanospirillum hungatei, and the Implication for Methane Production." Journal of Bacteriology. 1996. Volume 178. p. 3106-3112.

7: Southam, G., Firtel, M., Blackford, B.L., Jericho, M.H., Xu, W., Mulhern, P.J., Beveridge, T.J. "Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, and Atomic Force Microscopy of the Cell Envelope Layers of the Archaeobacterium Methanospirillum hungatei GP1." Journal of Bacteriology. 1993. Volume 175. p. 1946-1955.

8: Southam, G., Kalmokoff, M.L., Jarrell, K.F., Koval, S.F., Beveridge, T.J. "Isolation, Characterization, and Cellular Insertion of the Flagella from Two Strains of the Archaebacterium Methanospirillum hungatei." Journal of Bacteriology. 1990. Volume 172. p. 3221-3228.

9: Sprott, G.D., Shaw, K.M., Jarrell, K.F. "Isolation and Chemical Composition of the Cytoplasmic Membrane of the Archaebacterium Methanospirillum hungatei." Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1983. Volume 258. p. 4026-4031.

10: Muller, N., Schleheck, D., Schink, B. "Involvement of NADH:Acceptor Oxidoreductase and Butyryl Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase in Reversed Electron Transport during Syntrophic Butyrate Oxidation by Syntrophomonas wolfei." Journal of Bacteriology. 2009. Volume 191. p. 6167-6177.

Author

Page authored by Shannon Henderson and David Hall, students of Prof. Jay Lennon at Michigan State University.

<-- Do not remove this line-->