Methanosphaera

Methanosphaera is a genus of microbes 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]

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

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanosphaera. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
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.

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. 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.