HAMAP: Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum (strain BBMN68) complete proteome

General information

Species:  Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum (strain BBMN68)
Species code: BIFLM
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteridae; Bifidobacteriales; Bifidobacteriaceae; Bifidobacterium (TaxID: 890402) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Bifidobacteria represent an important group of the intestinal microbiota of humans and are believed to be promising candidates for pharmaceutical applications and functional food products due to their ability to exclude intestinal pathogens, strengthen the intestinal barrier, and/or modulate the immune response in the intestine. Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum (strain BBMN68) is a anaerobic Gram-positive bacterium isolated from the feces of a healthy centenarian living in an area of BaMa, Guangxi, China. (Adapted from PMID: 21097614).
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia
Number of membranes: 1
Statistics: Number of BIFLM entries in UniProtKB: 1795 (0 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1795 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    BBMN68
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number CP002286 (circular; 2,265,943 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] Pubmed=21097614;
Hao Y., Huang D., Guo H., Xiao M., An H., Zhao L., Zuo F., Zhang B., Hu S., Song S., Chen S., Ren F. ;
"Complete genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum BBMN68, a new strain from a healthy chinese centenarian.";
J. Bacteriol. 193:787-788(2011).
Web links:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomeprj?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=53143
GIB (DDBJ): http://gtps.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Blon_BBMN68


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