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Species code:	RICPR
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia; typhus group (TaxID: 272947) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Obligate intracellular parasite. Causative agent of epidemic typhus. R.prowazekii is more closely related to mitochondria than is any other microbe studied so far.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Human pathogen: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia (intracellular obligate) Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of RICPR entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 834 (585 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 249 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number AJ235269 (circular; 1,111,523 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=99039499; PubMed=9823893; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Andersson S.G.E., Zomorodipour A., Andersson J.O., Sicheritz-Ponten T., Alsmark U.C.M., Podowski R.M., Naeslund A.K., Eriksson A.-S., Winkler H.H., Kurland C.G. ; "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria."; Nature 396:133-140(1998).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Rickettsia&GLspecies=prowazekii&GLstrain=Madrid-E Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid272947%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Rpro_MADRIDE JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntrp01 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Rickettsia_prowazekii.html PATRIC: http://patric.vbi.vt.edu/genome/overview.php?genomeId=66 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p43_Ric_prowa  EBI Proteome Analysis page  UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot document

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