Species code:	BACFN
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidetes (class); Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides (TaxID: 272559) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacteroides fragilis is a Gram-negative rod, which represents a large part of the colonic bacteria flora. It is an opportunistic pathogen that can severely limit the success of gastro-intestinal surgery, and is frequently associated with extraintestinal infections such as abscesses and soft tissue infections, as well as diarrheal diseases in animals and humans. (Partially extracted from Karyn's Genomes-EBI). The strain ATCC 25285 / NCTC 9343 was originally isolated from an abdominal infection at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1955.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia; Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACFN entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4234 (270 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3964 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CR626927 (circular; 5,205,140 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBF9343 EMBL accession number CR626928 (circular; 36,560 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
References	[1] PubMed=15746427; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Cerdeno-Tarraga A.-M., Patrick S., Crossman L.C., Blakely G., Abratt V., Lennard N., Poxton I., Duerden B., Harris B., Quail M.A., Barron A., Clark L., Corton C., Doggett J., Holden M.T.G., Larke N., Line A., Lord A., Norbertczak H., Ormond D., Price C., Rabbinowitsch E., Woodward J., Barrell B.G., Parkhill J. ; "Extensive DNA inversions in the B. fragilis genome control variable gene expression."; Science 307:1463-1465(2005).
Web links	Official genome site(s): http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/B_fragilis/ Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Bacteroides&GLspecies=fragilis&GLstrain=NCTC9343 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid272559%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bfra_NCTC9343 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Bacteroides_fragilis.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p46_Bac_fragi TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntbf01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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