Species code:	LACPL
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Lactobacillales; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacillus (TaxID: 1590) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Lactobacillus plantarum is a flexible and versatile species that is encountered in a variety of environmental niches, including some dairy, meat, and many vegetable and plant fermentations. L.plantarum is frequently encountered as a natural inhabitant of the human gastrointestinal tract.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of LACPL entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3001 (435 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2566 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure	Chromosome EMBL accession number AL935263 (circular; 3,308,274 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
References	[1] MEDLINE=22480296; PubMed=12566566; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Kleerebezem M., Boekhorst J., van Kranenburg R., Molenaar D., Kuipers O.P., Leer R., Tarchini R., Peters S.A., Sandbrink H.M., Fiers M.W.E.J., Stiekema W., Klein Lankhorst R.M., Bron P.A., Hoffer S.M., Nierop Groot M.N., Kerkhoven R., De Vries M., Ursing B., De Vos W.M., Siezen R.J. ; "Complete genome sequence of Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:1990-1995(2003).
Web links	Official genome site(s): http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/lactobacillus/ Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Lactobacillus&GLspecies=plantarum&GLstrain=WCFS1 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid220668%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Lpla_WCFS1 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Lactobacillus_plantarum.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p356_Lac_plant TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntlp01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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