Entry
Org code
cbb
Name
Clostridium botulinum B1 Okra
Annotation
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Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Clostridia; Eubacteriales; Clostridiaceae; Clostridium; Clostridium botulinum; Clostridium botulinum B; Clostridium botulinum B1
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KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Disease
Comment
Expresses extremely potent neurotoxins known as botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) that cause long-lasting, potentially fatal intoxications in humans and other mammals.
Originally obtained from the National Institute of Health and presumed to be from a foodborne botulism incident in the US.
Chromosome
Plasmid
Statistics
Number of protein genes: 3846
Number of RNA genes: 112
Created
2008
Reference
Authors
Smith TJ, Hill KK, Foley BT, Detter JC, Munk AC, Bruce DC, Doggett NA, Smith LA, Marks JD, Xie G, Brettin TS.
Title
Analysis of the neurotoxin complex genes in Clostridium botulinum A1-A4 and B1 strains: BoNT/A3, /Ba4 and /B1 clusters are located within plasmids.
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