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Species code:	BLOFL
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; ant endosymbionts; Candidatus Blochmannia (TaxID: 203907) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Blochmannia are obligately intracellular primary bacterial mutualists of the ant tribe Camponotini. Blochmannia provides important sulfur and nitrogenous compounds, including most amino acids, to the ant host, probably while taking advantage of the host metabolic machinery. Blochmannia also recycles nitrogen from urea into glutamine via the activity of urease and glutamine synthetase. Urease hydrolyzes urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide, and glutamine synthetase assimilates nitrogen from ammonia into glutamine, which feeds into other amino acid biosynthetic pathways. Blochmannia floridanus is the primary symbiont of the ant Camponotus floridanus.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Human pathogen: No Interaction: Animal endosymbiont in Camponotus floridanus (ant) Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BLOFL entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 583 (284 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 299 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number BX248583 (circular; 705,557 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=22784745; PubMed=12886019; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Gil R., Silva F.J., Zientz E., Delmotte F., Gonzalez-Candelas F., Latorre A., Rausell C., Kamerbeek J., Gadau J., Hoelldobler B., van Ham R.C.H.J., Gross R., Moya A. ; "The genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus: comparative analysis of reduced genomes."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:9388-9393(2003).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Blochmannia&GLspecies=floridanus&GLstrain=Strain coliBASE: http://xbase.bham.ac.uk/colibase/genome.pl?id=998 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid203907%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bflo JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntbf02 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Candidatus_blochmannia_floridanus.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p443_Blo_flori  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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