Species code:	MYCSJ
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteridae; Actinomycetales; Corynebacterineae; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium (TaxID: 164757) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Mycobacteria belong to the order Actinomycetales that are Gram-positive, acid-fast, pleomorphic, non-motile rods characterized by distinctive cell surface mycolic acid derivatives. This isolate belongs to a fast-growing group and actually has a coccus morphology, whereas members of the slow-growing group of Mycobacteria are notorious for causing human and animal diseases. Mycobacterium JLS was isolated from soil in Libby, Montana, USA, the site of a former lumber and plywood mill. The soil is contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), and JLS is one of several indigenous mycobacteria isolated from this site that are able to degrade high molecular weight PAH including pyrene, however this isolate cannot degrade benzo(a)pyrene. Other Mycobacteria from this site include strain MCS (MYCSS) and strain KMS (MYCSK). Strain JLS mineralizes small- and large-ring PAHs, in contrast to other PAH-degrading microbes and thus offers possibilities for bioremediation of PAHs. The genome sequence of the Mycobacterium isolate JLS will permit comparisons with the genomes of pathogenic isolates, as well as an understanding of the pathway for PAH degradation and survival mechanisms in polluted conditions (modified from http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/myc_j/myc_j.home.html).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of MYCSJ entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5695 (274 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 5421 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000580 (circular; 6,048,425 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Miller C.D., Anderson A.J., Sims R.C., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Mycobacterium sp. JLS."; Submitted (FEB-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/myc_j/myc_j.home.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid164757%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Myco_JLS  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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