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HAMAP: Yersinia pestis (strain Pestoides F) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Yersinia pestis (strain Pestoides F)
Species code: YERPP
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Yersinia (TaxID: 386656) [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. Y.pestis Pestoides F is not one of the 3 classical biovars (Antiqua, Medievalis and Orientalis), but is one of a number of "atypical" Y.pestis that do not fit into the classical biovars. For example it can can ferment rhamnose and melibiose which the classical biovars cannot. Pestoides F was isolated in the former USSR before 1984, lacks plasminogen activator and is virulent by the aerosol route. It has been suggested that rather than a nomenclature system based on biovars, Y.pestis should be grouped into populations based on a number of different characteristics. In this system Pestoides F is called 0.PE2.a.
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: Yes
Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of YERPP entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3942 (667 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3275 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    Pestoides F
Genome structure:
• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000668 (circular; 4,517,345 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pCD EMBL accession number CP000669 (circular; 71,507 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pMT EMBL accession number CP000670 (circular; 137,010 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Di Bartolo G., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Worsham P., Chu M., Bearden S., Garcia E., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of chromosome of Yersinia pestis Pestoides F.";
Submitted (FEB-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
[2] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Di Bartolo G., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Worsham P., Chu M., Bearden S., Garcia E., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of plasmid pCD of Yersinia pestis Pestoides F.";
Submitted (FEB-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
[3] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Di Bartolo G., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Worsham P., Chu M., Bearden S., Garcia E., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of plasmid pMT of Yersinia pestis Pestoides F.";
Submitted (FEB-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/yerpp/yerpp.home.html
Other web sites:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid386656%5Borgn%5D
ERIC: http://www.ericbrc.org/portal/eric/yersiniapestispestoidesf
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ypes_PESTOIDESF
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