| T number | T00003 |
| 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.
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| 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
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| 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 |
Methanocaldococcus jannaschii