Entry
Org code
mmi
Name
Mycobacterium marinum M
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium ulcerans group
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Keywords
Human pathogen, Animal pathogen, Fish pathogen
Disease
H01458 Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection
Comment
Ubiquitous pathogen of fish and amphibia.
Shown to also be a human pathogen.
Facultative anaerobe.
Unable to reduce nitrate and produces characteristic bright yellow carotenoid pigments when exposed to light.
Isolated from a patient with fish tank granuloma in San Francisco in 1992.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
6636827
Plasmid
pMM23; Circular
Sequence
Length
23317
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 6660144
Number of protein genes: 5452
Number of RNA genes: 51
Created
2008
Reference
Authors
Stinear TP, Seemann T, Harrison PF, Jenkin GA, Davies JK, Johnson PD, Abdellah Z, Arrowsmith C, Chillingworth T, Churcher C, et al.
Title
Insights from the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium marinum on the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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