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HAMAP: Blochmannia pennsylvanicus (strain BPEN) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Blochmannia pennsylvanicus (strain BPEN)
Species code: BLOPB
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; ant endosymbionts; Candidatus Blochmannia (TaxID: 291272) [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 pennsylvanicus is an obligate endosymbiont of the ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus. Its gene content differs from the one of Blochmannia floridanus only by 3.6 %.
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: Animal endosymbiont in Camponotus pennsylvanicus (ant)
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of BLOPB entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 610 (274 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 336 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    BPEN
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000016 (circular; 791,654 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] PubMed=16077009; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Degnan P.H., Lazarus A.B., Wernegreen J.J. ;
"Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects.";
Genome Res. 15:1023-1033(2005).
Web links:
CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Blochmannia&GLspecies=pennsylvanicus&GLstrain=BPEN
coliBASE: http://xbase.bham.ac.uk/colibase/genome.pl?id=999
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid291272%5Borgn%5D
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bpen_BPEN
JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntcp07
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p13875_Blo_penns
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