Methanolobus tindarius

Methanolobus tindarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosarcinaceae
Genus:	Methanolobus
Species:	M. tindarius
Binomial name
Methanolobus tindarius König and Stetter 1982

Methanolobus tindarius is a methanogen archaeon. It is marine, mesophilic, coccoid, lobal and monotrichous flagellated.[1] They were isolated from coastal sediments.[2]

References

1. König, Helmut, and Karl O. Stetter. "Isolation and characterization of Methanolobus tindarius, sp. nov., a coccoid methanogen growing only on methanol and methylamines." Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie Mikrobiologie und Hygiene: I. Abt. Originale C: Allgemeine, angewandte und ökologische Mikrobiologie 3.4 (1982): 478-490.
2. Sue-Yao Wu; Mei-Chin Lai (2010-12-10). "Methanogenic Archaea Isolated from Taiwan's Chelungpu Fault". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 27 (3): 830–838. doi:10.1128/AEM.01539-10. PMC 3028716. PMID 21148697.

Further reading

• Westenberg DJ, Braune A, Ruppert C, et al. (January 1999). "The F420H2-dehydrogenase from Methanolobus tindarius: cloning of the ffd operon and expression of the genes in Escherichia coli". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 170 (2): 389–98. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13399.x. PMID 9933933.
• HAASE, Peter; DEPPENMEIER, Uwe; BLAUT, Michael; GOTTSCHALK, Gerhard (1992). "Purification and characterization of F420H2-dehydrogenase from Methanolobus tindarius". European Journal of Biochemistry. 203 (3): 527–531. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16579.x. ISSN 0014-2956. PMID 1735436.
• Scheel, E.; Schafer, G. (14 February 1990). "Chemiosmotic Energy Conversion and the Membrane Atpse of Methanolobus-Tindarius". European Journal of Biochemistry. 187 (3): 727–735. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15360.x. PMID 2137410.

External links

• "Methanolobus tindarius". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• Type strain of Methanolobus tindarius at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase