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Species code:	BACAH
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus group (TaxID: 412694) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that belongs to the B.cereus group along with Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus. Bacillus thuringiensis is an insect pathogen that is widely used as a biopesticide in commercial agriculturedue to its various endogenous crystal proteins and spores. When insects ingest toxin crystals, the alkaline pH of their digestive tract activates the toxin. Cry inserts into the insect gut cell membrane, forming a pore. The pore results cell lysis and eventual death of the insect. Bacillus thuringiensis (strain Al Hakam) was collected at a suspected bioweapons facility in Iraq by the United Nations Special Commission. This genome does not contain homologs of the known cry, cyt or vip genes.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Human pathogen: No Interaction: Animal pathogen in Insecta Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACAH entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4792 (393 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4399 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000485 (circular; 5,257,091 bp) (download entry) • Plasmid pALH1 EMBL accession number CP000486 (circular; 55,939 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=17337577; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Challacombe J.F., Altherr M.R., Xie G., Bhotika S.S., Brown N., Bruce D., Campbell C.S., Campbell M.L., Chen J., Chertkov O., Cleland C., Dimitrijevic M., Doggett N.A., Fawcett J.J., Glavina T., Goodwin L.A., Green L.D., Han C.S., Hill K.K., Hitchcock P., Jackson P.J., Keim P., Kewalramani A.R., Longmire J., Lucas S., Malfatti S., Martinez D., McMurry K., Meincke L.J., Misra M., Moseman B.L., Mundt M., Munk A.C., Okinaka R.T., Parson-Quintana B., Reilly L.P., Richardson P., Robinson D.L., Saunders E., Tapia R., Tesmer J.G., Thayer N., Thompson L.S., Tice H., Ticknor L.O., Wills P.L., Gilna P., Brettin T.S. ; "The complete genome sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis Al Hakam."; J. Bacteriol. 189:3680-3681(2007).
Web links:	Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid412694%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bthu_AL_HAKAM Pathema: http://pathema.jcvi.org/cgi-bin/Bacillus/shared/GenomePage.cgi?org=ntbt04 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p18255_Bac_thuri  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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