| Entry | T00231 | 
| Org code | lac | 
| Name | Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM | 
| Annotation | yes | 
| Taxonomy | TAX: 272621 | 
|     Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Lactobacillales; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacillus; Lactobacillus acidophilus | 
| 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_000011985.1 Complete Genome)             BioProject: 82 | 
| Comment | Contribute to the organisms' gastric survival and promote interactions with the intestinal mucosa and microbiota.             First isolated by Moro in 1900 from infant feces.
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| Chromosome | Circular | 
|     Sequence | GB: CP000033 | 
|     Length | 1993560 | 
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides:       1993560             Number of protein genes:        1862             Number of RNA genes:              74
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| Created | 2005 | 
| Reference | PMID: 15671160 | 
|     Authors | Altermann E, Russell WM, Azcarate-Peril MA, Barrangou R, Buck BL, McAuliffe O, Souther N, Dobson A, Duong T, Callanan M, et al. | 
|     Title | Complete genome sequence of the probiotic lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM. | 
|     Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:3906-12 (2005)             DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0409188102 |