Species code:	ECOUT
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia (TaxID: 364106) [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. UTI89 is a uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC) recovered from a patient with an acute bladder infection. UPEC strains must adapt to life in several microbial communities in the human body, and have a complex life cycle in the bladder where they cause acute or recurrent urinary tract infection.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of ECOUT entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5193 (764 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4429 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000243 (circular; 5,065,741 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pUTI89 EMBL accession number CP000244 (circular; 114,230 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=16585510; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Chen S.L., Hung C.-S., Xu J., Reigstad C.S., Magrini V., Sabo A., Blasiar D., Bieri T., Meyer R.R., Ozersky P., Armstrong J.R., Fulton R.S., Latreille J.P., Spieth J., Hooton T.M., Mardis E.R., Hultgren S.J., Gordon J.I. ; "Identification of genes subject to positive selection in uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli: a comparative genomics approach."; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103:5977-5982(2006).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://hultgren.wustl.edu/UTI89/ Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid364106%5Borgn%5D ERIC: http://www.ericbrc.org/portal/eric/ecoliut189 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ecol_UTI89 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p16259_Esc_coli  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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