Species code:	METKA
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Methanopyri; Methanopyrales; Methanopyraceae; Methanopyrus (TaxID: 2320) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Rod-shaped Gram positive methanogen that grows at 80-110 degrees Celsius. It was isolated from the sea floor at the base of a 2000 m-deep "black smoker" chimney in the Gulf of California.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins: 5 in 5 different sequences
Statistics:	Number of METKA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 1687 (367 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1320 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE009439 (circular; 1,694,969 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
References	[1] MEDLINE=21927647; PubMed=11930014; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Slesarev A.I., Mezhevaya K.V., Makarova K.S., Polushin N.N., Shcherbinina O.V., Shakhova V.V., Belova G.I., Aravind L., Natale D.A., Rogozin I.B., Tatusov R.L., Wolf Y.I., Stetter K.O., Malykh A.G., Koonin E.V., Kozyavkin S.A. ; "The complete genome of hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri AV19 and monophyly of archaeal methanogens."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:4644-4649(2002).
Web links	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Archaea&GLgenus=Methanopyrus&GLspecies=kandleri&GLstrain=AV19 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid190192%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mkan_AV19 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/archaea/Methanopyrus_kandleri.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p294_Met_kandl TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntmk01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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