KEGG   GENOME: Methanocaldococcus jannaschii
Entry
T00003            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
mja
Name
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii DSM 2661
Category
Reference genome; Type strain
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:243232
  Lineage
Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanomada group; Methanococci; Methanococcales; Methanocaldococcaceae; Methanocaldococcus
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000091665.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 102
Keywords
Autotrophic methanogen
Comment
Autotrophic and strict anaerobe.
Produces methane.
Grows at pressures of up to more than 200 atm and at an optimum temperature of near 85 deg C.
Originally isolated from a sediment sample collected from the sea floor surface at the base of a 2600-m-deep "white smoker" chimney on the East Pacific Rise.
Chromosome
Circular
  Sequence
GB:L77117
  Length
1664970
Plasmid
ECL; Circular
  Sequence
GB:L77118
  Length
58407
Plasmid
ECS; Circular
  Sequence
GB:L77119
  Length
16550
Statistics
Number of nucleotides:       1739927
Number of protein genes:        1770
Number of RNA genes:              43
Created
1996
Reference
PMID:8688087
  Authors
Bult CJ, White O, Olsen GJ, Zhou L, Fleischmann RD, Sutton GG, Blake JA, FitzGerald LM, Clayton RA, Gocayne JD, et al.
  Title
Complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii.
  Journal
Science 273:1058-73 (1996)
DOI:10.1126/science.273.5278.1058
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