Number of protein coding genes
| Value | 689 genes |
|---|---|
| Organism | Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
| Reference | Kühner S et al., Proteome organization in a genome-reduced bacterium. Science. 2009 Nov 27 326(5957):1235-40. p.1236 left column top paragraphPubMed ID19965468 |
| Primary Source | Himmelreich R, Hilbert H, Plagens H, Pirkl E, Li BC, Herrmann R. Complete sequence analysis of the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Nucleic Acids Res. 1996 Nov 15 24(22):4420-49. AND Dandekar T, et al., Re-annotating the Mycoplasma pneumoniae genome sequence: adding value, function and reading frames. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 Sep 1 28(17):3278-88.PubMed ID8948633, 10954595 |
| Comments | This self-replicating organism has one of the smallest known genomes (689 protein encoding genes) (primary sources). This organism also has 44 noncoding RNAs (PMID 19965477 p.1269 left column top paragraph) |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 107813 |