Draft Genome Sequence of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus WHS, a Thermophilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen from Washburn Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, USA

Luke J McKay; Korinne B Klingelsmith; Adam M Deutschbauer; William P Inskeep; Matthew W Fields

doi:10.1128/MRA.01157-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus WHS, a Thermophilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen from Washburn Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, USA

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Feb 4;10(5):e01157-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01157-20.

Authors

Luke J McKay^{1

2

3}, Korinne B Klingelsmith⁴, Adam M Deutschbauer^{5

6}, William P Inskeep^{2

3}, Matthew W Fields^{4

3

7}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA [email protected].
² Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
³ Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
⁴ Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
⁵ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.

Abstract

A thermophilic methanogen was enriched in coculture from Washburn Hot Springs (Yellowstone National Park, USA), grown on carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and subsequently sequenced. The reconstructed 1.65-Mb genome sequence for Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus WHS contributes to our understanding of hydrogenotrophic, CO₂-reducing methanogenesis in geothermal ecosystems.