Species code:	BACHK
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus group (TaxID: 180856) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that belongs to the B.cereus group along with Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus. Bacillus thuringiensis is an insect pathogen that is widely used as a biopesticide in commercial agriculture. Infection of humans is unusual. Bacillus thuringiensis 97-27 was originally isolated from a case of severe human tissue necrosis superinfection. The apparent pathogenic properties of B. thuringiensis 97-27 are very unusual for B. thuringiensis; unlike most B. thuringiensis isolates, this isolate is very closely related to B. anthracis based on phylogenetic analysis.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Insecta Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACHK entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5169 (512 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4657 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure	• Chromosome EMBL accession number AE017355 (circular; 5,237,682 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBT9727 EMBL accession number CP000047 (circular; 77,112 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
References	[1] PubMed=16621833; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Han C.S., Xie G., Challacombe J.F., Altherr M.R., Bhotika S.S., Bruce D., Campbell C.S., Campbell M.L., Chen J., Chertkov O., Cleland C., Dimitrijevic M., Doggett N.A., Fawcett J.J., Glavina T., Goodwin L.A., Hill K.K., Hitchcock P., Jackson P.J., Keim P., Kewalramani A.R., Longmire J., Lucas S., Malfatti S., McMurry K., Meincke L.J., Misra M., Moseman B.L., Mundt M., Munk A.C., Okinaka R.T., Parson-Quintana B., Reilly L.P., Richardson P., Robinson D.L., Rubin E., Saunders E., Tapia R., Tesmer J.G., Thayer N., Thompson L.S., Tice H., Ticknor L.O., Wills P.L., Brettin T.S., Gilna P. ; "Pathogenomic sequence analysis of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis isolates closely related to Bacillus anthracis."; J. Bacteriol. 188:3382-3390(2006).
Web links	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Bacillus&GLspecies=thuringiensis&GLstrain=9727 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid281309%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bthu_KONKUKIAN Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Bacillus_thuringiensis.html Pathema: http://pathema.jcvi.org/cgi-bin/Bacillus/shared/GenomePage.cgi?org=ntbt02 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p10877_Bac_thuri TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntbt02  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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