| Entry | T02887 |
| Org code | mkn |
| Name | Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478 |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 557599 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium kansasii |
| 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_000157895.2 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 30907 |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Comment | Acid-fast bacterium that can cause a pulmonary disease in immunocompromised individuals and those with underlying pulmonary conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and silicosis.
First identified in 1953 as the "yellow bacillus".
|
| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: CP006835 |
| Length | 6432277 |
| Plasmid | pMK12478; Circular |
| Sequence | GB: CP006836 |
| Length | 144951 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 6577228
Number of protein genes: 5866
Number of RNA genes: 51
|
| Created | 2013 |
| Reference | PMID: 25716827 |
| Authors | Wang J, McIntosh F, Radomski N, Dewar K, Simeone R, Enninga J, Brosch R, Rocha EP, Veyrier FJ, Behr MA |
| Title | Insights on the emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii. |
| Journal | Genome Biol Evol 7:856-70 (2015)
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv035 |
Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478