KEGG   GENOME: Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655
Entry
T00007            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
eco
Name
Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655
Category
Reference genome
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:511145
  Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia; Escherichia coli
Org group
Bacteria; Enterobacteria; Enterobacteriaceae
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000005845.2 Complete Genome)
Original DB
Wisconsin
Pasteur
RegulonDB
ECOCYC
ASAP
Comment
Colonizes the lower gut of animals, and, as a facultative anaerobe.
Maintained as a laboratory strain with minimal genetic manipulation, having only been cured of the temperate bacteriophage lambda and F plasmid by ultraviolet light and acridine orange, respectively.
Chromosome
Circular (RS:NC_000913)
Statistics
Number of protein genes:        4288
Number of RNA genes:             206
Created
1997
Reference
PMID:9278503
  Authors
Blattner FR, Plunkett G 3rd, Bloch CA, Perna NT, Burland V, Riley M, Collado-Vides J, Glasner JD, Rode CK, Mayhew GF, et al.
  Title
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.
  Journal
Science 277:1453-62 (1997)
DOI:10.1126/science.277.5331.1453
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