The Sanger Institute has been funded by the Wellcome Trust to sequence the genome of Citrobacter rodentium strain ICC168 in collaboration with Dr. Gadi Frankel and Prof. Gordon Dougan of the Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College, U.K.
Citrobacter rodentium is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae, and is a close relative of Escherichia coli. It is a host-restricted mouse pathogen, and is used as a model system to study the pathogenic mechanisms of enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli.
The sequence is now finished and is available for searching on our Blast Server, or for download from our FTP site. Additionally a preliminary gene prediction is also now available.
The genome is 5,346,659 bp in length, with an average G+C content of 54.72 %.
The shotgun reads are also available: There are 80,152 reads totalling 49.541 Mb and giving a theoretical coverage of 99.99% of the genome.
The sequence and analysis is now published in Petty et al, J. Bacteriol., 192, p525-538 (2010)
