Species code:	METBF
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanomicrobia; Methanosarcinales; Methanosarcinaceae; Methanosarcina (TaxID: 269797) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Methanosarcina barkeri is a methanogenic anaerobe Archaeon. The Fusaro strain was isolated from mud samples taken from the freshwater lake Lago del Fusaro near Naples in Italy. It has also been reported that M.barkeri strain Fusaro lives in the rumen of cattle. The rumen is an organ where microbial populations collaborate to digest cellulose and other polysaccharides, producing carbon dioxide, methane and organic acids.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of METBF entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3616 (314 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3302 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000099 (circular; 4,837,408 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pMbar1 EMBL accession number CP000098 (circular; 36,358 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=16980466; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Maeder D.L., Anderson I., Brettin T.S., Bruce D.C., Gilna P., Han C.S., Lapidus A., Metcalf W.W., Saunders E., Tapia R., Sowers K.R. ; "The Methanosarcina barkeri genome: comparative analysis with Methanosarcina acetivorans and Methanosarcina mazei reveals extensive rearrangement within methanosarcinal genomes."; J. Bacteriol. 188:7922-7931(2006).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/metba/metba.home.html Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Archaea&GLgenus=Methanosarcina&GLspecies=barkeri&GLstrain=fusaro Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid269797%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mbar_FUSARO Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/archaea/Methanosarcina_barkeri.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p103_Met_barke TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntmb02  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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