Species code:	PEDPA
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Lactobacillales; Lactobacillaceae; Pediococcus (TaxID: 278197) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Pediococcus pentosaceus are Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile and non-spore-forming members of the industrially important lactic acid bacteria. Like other lactic acid bacteria, P. pentosaceus are acid tolerant, cannot synthesize porphyrins, and possess a strictly fermentative metabolism with lactic acid as the major metabolic end product. P. pentosaceus can be isolated from a variety of plant materials and bacterial ripened cheeses. This organism is used as an acid producing starter culture in sausage fermentations, cucumber and green bean fermentations, soya milk fermentations, and silage. P. pentosaceus are also a typical component of the adventitious or non-starter microflora of most cheese varieties during ripening. In addition, it has been suggested that this organism may have value as an acid-producing starter culture in the dairy fermentations. Pediococcus divide alternatively in 2 perpendicular planes to form tetrads (adapted from http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/pedpe/pedpe.home.html).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of PEDPA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 1755 (252 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1503 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000422 (circular; 1,832,387 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=17030793; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Makarova K.S., Slesarev A., Wolf Y.I., Sorokin A., Mirkin B., Koonin E.V., Pavlov A., Pavlova N., Karamychev V., Polouchine N., Shakhova V., Grigoriev I., Lou Y., Rohksar D., Lucas S., Huang K., Goodstein D.M., Hawkins T., Plengvidhya V., Welker D., Hughes J., Goh Y., Benson A., Baldwin K., Lee J.-H., Diaz-Muniz I., Dosti B., Smeianov V., Wechter W., Barabote R., Lorca G., Altermann E., Barrangou R., Ganesan B., Xie Y., Rawsthorne H., Tamir D., Parker C., Breidt F., Broadbent J.R., Hutkins R., O'Sullivan D., Steele J., Unlu G., Saier M.H. Jr., Klaenhammer T., Richardson P., Kozyavkin S., Weimer B.C., Mills D.A. ; "Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103:15611-15616(2006).
Web links:	Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid278197%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ppen_ATCC25745 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p398_Ped_pento  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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