Species code:	ECOL6
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia (TaxID: 217992) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative straight rod, which either uses peritrichous flagella for mobility or is nonmotile. It is a facultatively anaerobic chemoorganotroph capable of both respiratory and fermentative metabolism. E.coli serves a useful function in the body by suppressing the growth of harmful bacterial species and by synthesising appreciable amounts of vitamins. It is an important component of the biosphere. It colonizes the lower gut of animals and survives when released to the natural environment, allowing widespread dissemination to new hosts. Pathogenic E.coli strains are responsible for infection of the enteric, urinary, pulmonary and nervous systems. Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (UPEC) are the most common cause of non-hospital-acquired urinary tract infections, responsible for 70-90% of the 7 million cases of acute cystitis and 250,000 cases of pyelonephritis reported annually in the United States.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of ECOL6 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5336 (1633 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3703 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE014075 (circular; 5,231,428 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=22388234; PubMed=12471157; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Welch R.A., Burland V., Plunkett G. III, Redford P., Roesch P., Rasko D., Buckles E.L., Liou S.-R., Boutin A., Hackett J., Stroud D., Mayhew G.F., Rose D.J., Zhou S., Schwartz D.C., Perna N.T., Mobley H.L.T., Donnenberg M.S., Blattner F.R. ; "Extensive mosaic structure revealed by the complete genome sequence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:17020-17024(2002).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.genome.wisc.edu/sequencing/upec.htm Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Escherichia&GLspecies=coli&GLstrain=CFT073 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid217992%5Borgn%5D ERIC: http://www.ericbrc.org/portal/eric/ecolicft073 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ecol_CFT073 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Escherichia_coli.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p313_Esc_coli TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntec04  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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