| T number | T00007 |
| Org_code | eco |
| Name | Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 511145 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000005845.2 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 57779 |
| Original DB | Wisconsin, Pasteur, RegulonDB, ECOCYC, ASAP |
| Comment | Colonizes the lower gut of animals, and, as a facultative anaerobe.
Maintained as a laboratory strain with minimal genetic manipulation, having only been cured of the temperate bacteriophage lambda and F plasmid by ultraviolet light and acridine orange, respectively.
|
| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | RS: NC_000913 (GB: U00096) |
| Length | 4641652 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 4641652
Number of protein genes: 4278
Number of RNA genes: 186
|
| Created | 1997 |
| Reference | PMID: 9278503 |
| Authors | Blattner FR, Plunkett G 3rd, Bloch CA, Perna NT, Burland V, Riley M, Collado-Vides J, Glasner JD, Rode CK, Mayhew GF, et al. |
| Title | The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12. |
| Journal | Science 277:1453-62 (1997)
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5331.1453 |
Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655