Species code:	ECOLC
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia (TaxID: 481805) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative straight rod, which either uses peritrichous flagella for mobility or is nonmotile. It is a facultatively anaerobic chemoorganotroph capable of both respiratory and fermentative metabolism. E.coli serves a useful function in the body by suppressing the growth of harmful bacterial species and by synthesising appreciable amounts of vitamins. It is an important component of the biosphere. It colonizes the lower gut of animals and survives when released to the natural environment, allowing widespread dissemination to new hosts. Pathogenic E.coli strains are responsible for infection of the enteric, urinary, pulmonary and nervous systems. Strain ATCC 8739 is a fecal strain. It is used to test the efficiency of antimicrobial agents. It has an insertion element within ompC, and thus only expresses ompF as the major outer membrane porin.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: not known Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of ECOLC entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4173 (738 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3435 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000946 (circular; 4,746,218 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Kiss H., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Ingram L., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Escherichia coli C str. ATCC 8739."; Submitted (FEB-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/escco/escco.info.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=18083 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ecol_ATCC8739  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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