| T number | T00151 |
| Org_code | cdi |
| Name | Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 13129 |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 257309 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Corynebacteriaceae; Corynebacterium |
| 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_000195815.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 87 |
| Original DB | Sanger |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Disease | H00343 Diphtheria |
| Comment | Non-spore forming, non-motile, pleomorphic rod belonging to the genus Corynebacterium.
Produces a potent bacteriophage-encoded protein exotoxin, diphtheria toxin (DT), which causes the symptoms of diphtheria.
Isolate from the pharyngeal membrane of a 72-year-old female with clinical diphtheria during the Eastern European outbreak in 1997.
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| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: BX248353 |
| Length | 2488635 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 2488635
Number of protein genes: 2272
Number of RNA genes: 69
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| Created | 2003 |
| Reference | PMID: 14602910 |
| Authors | Cerdeno-Tarraga AM, Efstratiou A, Dover LG, Holden MT, Pallen M, Bentley SD, Besra GS, Churcher C, James KD, De Zoysa A, et al. |
| Title | The complete genome sequence and analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC13129. |
| Journal | Nucleic Acids Res 31:6516-23 (2003)
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg874 |
Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 13129