| Range |
≥17 different plasmids/cell
|
| Organism |
Bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi |
| Reference |
Fraser et al., Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Nature. 1997 Dec 11 390(6660):580-6. abstractPubMed ID9403685
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| Primary Source |
[11] Barbour , A. G. & Garon, C. F . Linear plasmids of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi have covalently closed ends. Science 237, 409 – 411 (1987). [12] Barbour , A. G. Plasmid analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent. J. Clin. Microbiol. 26, 475 – 478 (1988). [13] Casjens, S., van Vugt, R., Stevenson, B., Tilly , K. & Rosa, P. Homology throughout the multiple 32- kilobase circular plasmids present in Lyme disease spirochetes. J. Bacteriol. 17, 217 – 227 (1997).PubMed ID3603026, 3356787, 8982001
|
| Method |
"Here [researchers]
summarize the results from sequencing, assembly and analysis of
the linear chromosome and 11 plasmids." |
| Comments |
"The genome of the bacterium
Borrelia burgdorferi
B31, the aetiologic agent of Lyme disease, contains a linear
chromosome of 910,725 base pairs and at least 17 linear and circular plasmids with a combined size of more than
533,000 base pairs...One of the most striking features of
B. burgdorferi
is its unusual
genome, which includes a linear chromosome approximately one
megabase in size
(refs 7–10)
and numerous linear and circular plasmids
(primary sources),
with some isolates containing up to 20 different plasmids." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
111257 |