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HAMAP: Yersinia pestis bv. Antiqua (strain Antiqua) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Yersinia pestis bv. Antiqua (strain Antiqua)
Species code: YERPA
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Yersinia (TaxID: 360102) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Gram-negative straight rods, sometimes approaching a spherical shape. Y.pestis is always nonmotile. It is the causative agent of plague which is primarily a disease of wild rodents. Y.pestis is transmitted among wild rodents by fleas, in which the bacteria multiply and block the esophagus and the pharynx. The fleas regurgitate the bacteria when they take their next blood meal. Bacteria are transmitted subcutaneously to humans by the bite of infected fleas, but also by air, especially during pandemics of disease. Infective flea bites produce the typical bubonic form of plague in humans. Y.pestis is very closely related to the gastrointestinal pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and it has been proposed that Y.pestis evolved from Y.pseudotuberculosis 1,500-20,000 years ago.
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: Yes
Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of YERPA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4135 (711 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3424 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    Antiqua
Genome structure:
• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000308 (circular; 4,702,289 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pMT EMBL accession number CP000309 (circular; 96,471 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pPCP EMBL accession number CP000310 (circular; 10,777 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pCD EMBL accession number CP000311 (circular; 70,299 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] PubMed=16740952; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Chain P.S.G., Hu P., Malfatti S.A., Radnedge L., Larimer F., Vergez L.M., Worsham P., Chu M.C., Andersen G.L. ;
"Complete genome sequence of Yersinia pestis strains Antiqua and Nepal516: evidence of gene reduction in an emerging pathogen.";
J. Bacteriol. 188:4453-4463(2006).
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/yespa/yespa.home.html
Other web sites:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid360102%5Borgn%5D
ERIC: http://www.ericbrc.org/portal/eric/yersiniapestisbiovarantiquaantiqua
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ypes_ANTIQUA
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p16645_Yer_pesti
 EBI Proteome Analysis page



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