| Entry | T01277 |
| Org code | cpu |
| Name | Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis FRC41 |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:765874 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Corynebacteriaceae; Corynebacterium; Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis |
| Org group | Bacteria; Actinomycetota; Mycobacteriales |
| 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_000143705.2 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Human pathogen, Animal pathogen |
| Comment | Important animal pathogen that rarely infects humans.
Facultative intracellular pathogen that is able to survive and grow in macrophages, thus escaping the immune response of the host.
The sphingomyelin-degrading enzyme is regarded as the major virulence factor.
Isolated from the inguinal lymph node of a 12-year-old girl with necrotizing lymphadenitis. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP002097) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 2014
Number of RNA genes: 63 |
| Created | 2010 |
| Reference | PMID: 21192786 |
| Authors | Trost E, Ott L, Schneider J, Schroder J, Jaenicke S, Goesmann A, Husemann P, Stoye J, Dorella FA, Rocha FS, et al. |
| Title | The complete genome sequence of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis FRC41 isolated from a 12-year-old girl with necrotizing lymphadenitis reveals insights into gene-regulatory networks contributing to virulence. |
| Journal | BMC Genomics 11:728 (2010)
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-728 |
