Species code:	BACWK
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Firmicutes; Bacillales; Bacillaceae; Bacillus; Bacillus cereus group (TaxID: 315730) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Bacillus weihenstephanensis is a non-pathogenic, Gram-positive, typical facultative psychrophile generally found in soil. Phylogenic studies show that in nature it is the most active group in terms of gene exchange. Strain KBAB4 was isolated from a forest near Versailles, France. B.weihenstephanensisis unusual for a Bacillus in having 4 plasmids encoding about 240 kb of extra-chromosomal genetic material that may account for this gene exchange phenomenon. It may also include unintegrated phage. Genes coding an Nhe-like toxin were found on the largest plasmid in KBAB4. This may indicate a potential mechanism of toxicity spread from the psychrophile strain community into other Bacillus members (adapted from PubMed 17434157).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: not known Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of BACWK entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5650 (16 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 5634 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000903 (circular; 5,262,775 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBWB401 EMBL accession number CP000904 (circular; 417,054 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBWB402 EMBL accession number CP000905 (circular; 75,107 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBWB403 EMBL accession number CP000906 (circular; 64,977 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pBWB404 EMBL accession number CP000907 (circular; 52,830 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=17434157; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Lapidus A., Goltsman E., Auger S., Galleron N., Segurens B., Dossat C., Land M.L., Broussolle V., Brillard J., Guinebretiere M.-H., Sanchis V., Nguen-the C., Lereclus D., Richardson P., Wincker P., Weissenbach J., Ehrlich S.D., Sorokin A. ; "Extending the Bacillus cereus group genomics to putative food-borne pathogens of different toxicity."; Chem. Biol. Interact. 171:236-249(2008).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/bacck/bacck.info.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=genomeprj&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=13623 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Bwei_KBAB4  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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