HAMAP: Tropheryma whipplei (strain TW08/27) (Whipple's bacillus) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Tropheryma whipplei (strain TW08/27) (Whipple's bacillus)
Species code: TROW8
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteridae; Actinomycetales; Micrococcineae; Tropheryma (TaxID: 218496) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Tropheryma whipplei is a Gram-positive, filamentous, aerobic, soil dwelling actinomycete. It is the causative agent of the Whipple's disease, a multisystem disorder, involving the intestinal tract and various other organs.
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: Yes
Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia
Number of membranes: 1
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of TROW8 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 781 (212 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 569 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    TW08/27
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number BX072543 (circular; 925,938 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] MEDLINE=22495039; PubMed=12606174; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Bentley S.D., Maiwald M., Murphy L.D., Pallen M.J., Yeats C.A., Dover L.G., Norbertczak H.T., Besra G.S., Quail M.A., Harris D.E., von Herbay A., Goble A., Rutter S., Squares R., Squares S., Barrell B.G., Parkhill J., Relman D.A. ;
"Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.";
Lancet 361:637-644(2003).
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/T_whipplei/
Other web sites:
CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Tropheryma&GLspecies=whippelii&GLstrain=TW0827
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid218496%5Borgn%5D
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Twhi_TW0827
JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=nttw02
Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Tropheryma_whipplei.html
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p354_Tro_whipp
 EBI Proteome Analysis page



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