Gene database of Methanosarcina mazei Go1

Methanosarcina mazei is an obligate anaerobic,
non-motile, methane producing archaeon. Found in sewage and decaying leaf
litter, the archaeon has an optimum growth pH of 6.8 to 7.2 and can aggregate
to form irregular clumps of cells. Sometimes, such clumps could exceed 1000 microns
in diameter. This work sought to provide fundamental information about the
genetic repertoire of M. mazei Go1 by parsing its annotated genome
sequence downloaded from Genbank. Comprising gene name, gene function, and gene
sequence, the resource should find use in a variety of fundamental microbiology
studies seeking to understand the genetic basis of observed phenotype of this
archaeon.