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Species code:	BACCN
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus group (TaxID: 315749) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium of the B.cereus group. It is closely related to Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis. Bacillus cereus is a ubiquitous soil organism and opportunistic human pathogen most commonly associated with food poisoning, causing diarrheic (late onset) or emetic (quick onset) outbreaks. Strain NVH 391-98 is a rare but particularly severe food-borne pathogen, isolated following a food-poisoning outbreak in France in 1998. It has a smaller genome than other B.cereus group strains, with the smallest coding potential of the group and should perhaps be part of a new species (B.cytotoxis or B.cytotoxicus have been proposed). Unlike all other B.cereus representatives it cannot synthesize tryptophan. It does not encode any hemolytic toxins, but does encode other toxins, including CytK, NheA, NheB and NheC. It does not seem to encode the sigma B factor or related regulatory proteins.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Human pathogen: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACCN entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3840 (434 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3406 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000764 (circular; 4,087,024 bp) (download entry) • Plasmid pBC9801 EMBL accession number CP000765 (circular; 7,135 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=17434157; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Lapidus A., Goltsman E., Auger S., Galleron N., Segurens B., Dossat C., Land M.L., Broussolle V., Brillard J., Guinebretiere M.-H., Sanchis V., Nguen-the C., Lereclus D., Richardson P., Wincker P., Weissenbach J., Ehrlich S.D., Sorokin A. ; "Extending the Bacillus cereus group genomics to putative food-borne pathogens of different toxicity."; Chem. Biol. Interact. 171:236-249(2008).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/bacce/bacce.info.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=13624 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bcer_NVH39198  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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