Species code:	AKKM8
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Verrucomicrobia; Verrucomicrobiae; Verrucomicrobiales; Verrucomicrobiaceae; Akkermansia (TaxID: 349741) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Akkermansia muciniphila strain ATCC BAA-835 was isolated as a novel, strictly anaerobic, mucin-degrading bacterium from a healthy human fecal sample in anaerobic medium containing gastric mucin as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. Cells are oval-shaped, showing a different size depending on the medium, in mucin medium being 640 nm in diameter and 690 nm in length and rich medium being 830 nm in diameter and 1 um in length. Cells stained Gram-negative, while flagella were not seen on negatively stained electron micrograph preparations. Formation of spores by the strain was never observed. In mucin medium, the organism produced a capsule and could grow as single cells or in pairs, rarely in chains and often formed aggregates. It counts for 1-3% of cells in the human feces and is a normal component of the intestinal tract.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Animal commensal in Mammalia Number of membranes: 2? Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of AKKM8 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2137 (8 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2129 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP001071 (circular; 2,664,102 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Lucas S., Copeland A., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Chain P., Malfatti S., Shin M., Vergez L., Lang D., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Ivanova N., Smidt H., Derrien M., Plugge C.M., Zoetendal E.G., de Vos W.M., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Akkermansia muciniphila ATCC BAA-835."; Submitted (MAY-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/akkmu/akkmu.home.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=20089 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Amuc_BAA835  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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