HAMAP: Tropheryma whipplei (strain Twist) (Whipple's bacillus) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Tropheryma whipplei (strain Twist) (Whipple's bacillus)
Species code: TROWT
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteridae; Actinomycetales; Micrococcineae; Tropheryma (TaxID: 203267) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Tropheryma whipelii 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 TROWT entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 805 (212 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 593 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    Twist
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number AE014184 (circular; 927,303 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] MEDLINE=22784088; PubMed=12902375; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Raoult D., Ogata H., Audic S., Robert C., Suhre K., Drancourt M., Claverie J.-M. ;
"Tropheryma whipplei twist: a human pathogenic Actinobacteria with a reduced genome.";
Genome Res. 13:1800-1809(2003).
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/spip/Tropheryma-whipplei-whole-genome.html
Other web sites:
CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Tropheryma&GLspecies=whippelii&GLstrain=Twist
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid203267%5Borgn%5D
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Twhi_TWIST
JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=nttw01
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_p95_Tro_whipp
 EBI Proteome Analysis page



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