| Entry | T00047 |
| Org code | mle |
| Name | Mycobacterium leprae TN |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 272631 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium leprae |
| 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_000195855.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 90 |
| Original DB | Pasteur |
| Keywords | Human pathogen, Animal pathogen |
| Disease | H00344 Leprosy H01473 Erythema nodosum leprosum |
| Comment | Isolated from an armadillo experimentally infected with M. leprae in biopsy material from a single lepromatous leprosy patient from Tamil Nadu, India.
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| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: AL450380 |
| Length | 3268203 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 3268203 Number of protein genes: 1605 Number of RNA genes: 50
|
| Created | 2001 |
| Reference | PMID: 11234002 |
| Authors | Cole ST, Eiglmeier K, Parkhill J, James KD, Thomson NR, Wheeler PR, Honore N, Garnier T, Churcher C, Harris D, et al. |
| Title | Massive gene decay in the leprosy bacillus. |
| Journal | Nature 409:1007-11 (2001) DOI: 10.1038/35059006 |