Species code:	METMA
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanomicrobia; Methanosarcinales; Methanosarcinaceae; Methanosarcina (TaxID: 2209) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Methanosarcina mazei and related species are of great ecological importance as they are the only organisms fermenting acetate, methylamines and methanol to methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of METMA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3303 (453 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2850 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE008384 (circular; 4,096,345 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=22120827; PubMed=12125824; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Deppenmeier U., Johann A., Hartsch T., Merkl R., Schmitz R.A., Martinez-Arias R., Henne A., Wiezer A., Baeumer S., Jacobi C., Brueggemann H., Lienard T., Christmann A., Boemecke M., Steckel S., Bhattacharyya A., Lykidis A., Overbeek R., Klenk H.-P., Gunsalus R.P., Fritz H.-J., Gottschalk G. ; "The genome of Methanosarcina mazei: evidence for lateral gene transfer between Bacteria and Archaea."; J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 4:453-461(2002).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.g2l.bio.uni-goettingen.de/mm/ Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Archaea&GLgenus=Methanosarcina&GLspecies=mazei&GLstrain=Goe1 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid192952%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mmaz_GOE1 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p300_Met_mazei TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntmm01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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