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Species code:	BACFN
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides (TaxID: 272559) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacteroides fragilis is a Gram-negative rod, which represents a large part of the colonic bacteria flora. It is an opportunistic pathogen that can severely limit the success of gastro-intestinal surgery, and is frequently associated with extraintestinal infections such as abscesses and soft tissue infections, as well as diarrheal diseases in animals and humans. (Partially extracted from Karyn's Genomes-EBI). The strain ATCC 25285 / NCTC 9343 was originally isolated from an abdominal infection at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1955.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Human pathogen: Yes Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia; Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACFN entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4234 (309 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3925 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CR626927 (circular; 5,205,140 bp) (download entry) • Plasmid pBF9343 EMBL accession number CR626928 (circular; 36,560 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=15746427; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Cerdeno-Tarraga A.-M., Patrick S., Crossman L.C., Blakely G., Abratt V., Lennard N., Poxton I., Duerden B., Harris B., Quail M.A., Barron A., Clark L., Corton C., Doggett J., Holden M.T.G., Larke N., Line A., Lord A., Norbertczak H., Ormond D., Price C., Rabbinowitsch E., Woodward J., Barrell B.G., Parkhill J. ; "Extensive DNA inversions in the B. fragilis genome control variable gene expression."; Science 307:1463-1465(2005).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/B_fragilis/ Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid272559%5Borgn%5D Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/project.php?pid=46 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bfra_NCTC9343 JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntbf01 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Bacteroides_fragilis.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p46_Bac_fragi  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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