Species code:	META3
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanococci; Methanococcales; Methanococcaceae; Methanococcus (TaxID: 419665) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Methanococcus aeolicus (strain Nankai-3 / ATCC BAA-1280) is an anaerobic archaeon of the phylum Euryarchaeota. It was isolated from deep marine sediment from the Nankai Trough off the coast of Japan. This organism is a methanogen, able to use hydrogen or formate to reduce CO2. Strain Nankai-3 is the type strain and will be used for comparative analysis.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins: 6 in 6 different sequences
Statistics:	Number of META3 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 1490 (210 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1280 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000743 (circular; 1,569,500 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Lykidis A., Sieprawska-Lupa M., Whitman W.B., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3."; Submitted (JUN-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=18641 Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/project.php?pid=18641 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Maeo_Nankai3 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p18641_Met_aeoli  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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