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HAMAP: Klebsiella pneumoniae (strain 342) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Klebsiella pneumoniae (strain 342)
Species code: KLEP3
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Klebsiella (TaxID: 507522) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Bacteria of the genus Klebsiella are widely distributed in nature, in the soil and in water. They are also part of the normal flora of the intestinal tract, but usually in low numbers compared with E. coli. Klebsiella, especially strains of the species K. pneumonia, are opportunistic pathogens that can cause pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and bacteremia. In recent years there has been an increase in Klebsiella infections, especially in hospitals and due to multiple-antibiotic resistant strains. The most striking difference between most strains of Klebsiella and its close relatives E. coli and Salmonella is that Klebsiella cells have a thick coat of slime or extracellular polysaccharide which is called a "capsule". The capsule protects the cells from dessication, and may also protect them from phagocytosis when they are in an animal host. Surprisingly, many strains of Klebsiella can fix nitrogen, i.e., they can reduce atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia and amino acids.

Strain 342 was isolated from the interior of nitrogen-efficient maize plants whilst looking for nitrogen-fixing endophytes to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizers. It can also colonize and provide a small amount of fixed nitrogen to wheat under greenhouse conditions in addition to colonizing the interior of a wide variety of other host plants (adapted from PubMed 18654632).
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: Plant endophyte
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of KLEP3 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5738 (696 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 5042 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    342
Genome structure:
• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000964 (circular; 5,641,239 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pKP187 EMBL accession number CP000965 (circular; 187,922 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pKP91 EMBL accession number CP000966 (circular; 91,096 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] PubMed=18654632; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Fouts D.E., Tyler H.L., DeBoy R.T., Daugherty S., Ren Q., Badger J.H., Durkin A.S., Huot H., Shrivastava S., Kothari S., Dodson R.J., Mohamoud Y., Khouri H., Roesch L.F.W., Krogfelt K.A., Struve C., Triplett E.W., Methe B.A. ;
"Complete genome sequence of the N2-fixing broad host range endophyte Klebsiella pneumoniae 342 and virulence predictions verified in mice.";
PLoS Genet. 4:E1000141-E1000141(2008).
Web links:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=28471
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Kpne_342
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p28471_Kle_pneum
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