KEGG   GENOME: Candidatus Babela massiliensis
Entry
T02948            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
dpb
Name
Candidatus Babela massiliensis 673862 (delta proteobacterium BABL1)
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:673862
  Lineage
Bacteria; Candidatus Babelota; Candidatus Babeliae; Candidatus Babeliales; Candidatus Babeliaceae; Candidatus Babela
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000513475.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 222461
Comment
Obligate intracellular parasite of Acanthamoeba castellanii.
Shows an unusual, fission mode of cell multiplication whereby large, polymorphic bodies accumulate in the cytoplasm of infected amoeba and then split into mature bacterial cells.
Chromosome
Circular
  Sequence
GB:HG793133
  Length
1118422
Statistics
Number of nucleotides:       1118422
Number of protein genes:         981
Number of RNA genes:              45
Created
2013
Reference
PMID:25884386
  Authors
Pagnier I, Yutin N, Croce O, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Benamar S, Raoult D, Koonin EV, La Scola B
  Title
Babela massiliensis, a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae.
  Journal
Biol Direct 10:13 (2015)
DOI:10.1186/s13062-015-0043-z
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