Species code:	STAAW
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacillales; Staphylococcus (TaxID: 196620) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Gram-positive nonmotile coccus that grows in aerobic and anaerobic conditions, in which it forms grape-like clusters. Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major causes of community- acquired and hospital-acquired infections. It produces numerous toxins including superantigens that cause unique disease entities such as toxic-shock syndrome and staphylococcal scarlet fever. MW2 is a typical community-acquired strain of MRSA isolated in 1998 in North Dakota.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of STAAW entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2660 (883 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1777 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number BA000033 (circular; 2,820,462 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pMW2 EMBL accession number AP004832 (circular; 20,654 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=22040717; PubMed=12044378; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Baba T., Takeuchi F., Kuroda M., Yuzawa H., Aoki K., Oguchi A., Nagai Y., Iwama N., Asano K., Naimi T., Kuroda H., Cui L., Yamamoto K., Hiramatsu K. ; "Genome and virulence determinants of high virulence community-acquired MRSA."; Lancet 359:1819-1827(2002).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/dogan/MicroTop?GENOME_ID=mw2_G1 Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Staphylococcus&GLspecies=aureus&GLstrain=MW2 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid196620%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Saur_MW2 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Staphylococcus_aureus.html NMPDR: http://www.nmpdr.org/FIG/seedviewer.cgi?pattern=196620.1;page=SearchResult PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p306_Sta_aureu TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntsa03  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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