Species code:	LACAC
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Lactobacillales; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacillus (TaxID: 1579) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM / NCK56 / N2 is a probiotic strain found in conventional foods like milk, yogurt and dietary supplements. It is commercially available in the United States since the mid-1970s. It has the ability to survive passage through the gastrointestinal tract.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of LACAC entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 1859 (273 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1586 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000033 (circular; 1,993,560 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=15671160; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Altermann E., Russell W.M., Azcarate-Peril M.A., Barrangou R., Buck B.L., McAuliffe O., Souther N., Dobson A., Duong T., Callanan M., Lick S., Hamrick A., Cano R., Klaenhammer T.R. ; "Complete genome sequence of the probiotic lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102:3906-3912(2005).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Lactobacillus&GLspecies=acidophilus&GLstrain=NCFM Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid272621%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Laci_NCFM Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Lactobacillus_acidophilus.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p82_Lac_acido TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntla01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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