Species code:	CLOPE
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae; Clostridium (TaxID: 1502) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Rod-shaped Gram-positive bacterium that is anaerobic and spore forming. It is widely distributed in the environment and frequently occurs in the intestines of humans and many domestic and feral animals. Spores of the organism persist in soil, sediments, and areas subject to human or animal fecal pollution. The common form of perfringens food poisoning is characterized by intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea which begin 8-22 hours after consumption of foods containing large numbers of those bacteria capable of producing the food poisoning enterotoxin. Type A strains can also cause wound contamination, traumatic or nontraumatic myonecrosis (gas gangrene), clostridial cellulitis, intra-abdominal sepsis and gangrenous cholecystitis. Strain 13 is an enterotoxin-negative type A strain which sporulates poorly in sporulation media and is only moderately virulent in animal gangrene models.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No? Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia; Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of CLOPE entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2721 (452 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2269 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number BA000016 (circular; 3,031,430 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pCP13 EMBL accession number AP003515 (circular; 54,310 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=21664373; PubMed=11792842; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Shimizu T., Ohtani K., Hirakawa H., Ohshima K., Yamashita A., Shiba T., Ogasawara N., Hattori M., Kuhara S., Hayashi H. ; "Complete genome sequence of Clostridium perfringens, an anaerobic flesh-eater."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:996-1001(2002).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Clostridium&GLspecies=perfringens&GLstrain=13 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid195102%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Cper_13 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Clostridium_perfringens.html Pathema: http://pathema.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/Clostridium/shared/GenomePage.cgi?org=ntcp03 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p79_Clo_perfr TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntcp03  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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