| Entry | T00574 |
| Org code | cba |
| Name | Clostridium botulinum A ATCC 19397 |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:441770 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Clostridia; Eubacteriales; Clostridiaceae; Clostridium; Clostridium botulinum |
| Org group | Bacteria; Clostridia; Eubacteriales |
| 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_000017025.1 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Disease | H00339 Botulism |
| Comment | Expresses extremely potent neurotoxins known as botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) that cause long-lasting, potentially fatal intoxications in humans and other mammals.
Most likely originated from foodborne botulism cases in the western US. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP000726) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 3551
Number of RNA genes: 106 |
| Created | 2007 |
| Reference | PMID: 18060065 |
| 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. |
| Journal | PLoS One 2:e1271 (2007)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001271 |
