| Entry | T00007 | 
| 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; Escherichia coli K-12 | 
| 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)             BioProject: 57779 | 
| 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.
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| Chromosome | Circular | 
|     Sequence | RS: NC_000913 (GB: U00096) | 
|     Length | 4641652 | 
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides:       4641652             Number of protein genes:        4288             Number of RNA genes:             206
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| 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 |