Methanolobus profundi

{{Short description|Species of archaeon}}

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| taxon = Methanolobus profundi

| authority = Mochimaru et al. 2009

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Methanolobus profundi is a mesophilic, methylotrophic methanogen archaeon. The type strain is MobM^T (=DSM 21213^T =NBRC 104158^T).{{cite journal|last1=Mochimaru|first1=H.|last2=Tamaki|first2=H.|last3=Hanada|first3=S.|last4=Imachi|first4=H.|last5=Nakamura|first5=K.|last6=Sakata|first6=S.|last7=Kamagata|first7=Y.|title=Methanolobus profundi sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen isolated from deep subsurface sediments in a natural gas field|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=59|issue=4|year=2009|pages=714–718|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.001677-0|pmid=19329594|doi-access=free}} It was isolated from a deep subsurface gas field.{{cite journal|author1=Sue-Yao Wu|author2=Mei-Chin Lai|title=Methanogenic Archaea Isolated from Taiwan's Chelungpu Fault|url=http://aem.asm.org/content/77/3/830.full|doi= 10.1128/AEM.01539-10 |date=10 December 2010|volume=27|pages=830–838|number=3|journal=Appl. Environ. Microbiol.|pmid=21148697|pmc=3028716 |s2cid=5183722|access-date=2017-12-12|doi-access=free}}