The Sanger Institute has been funded by the Wellcome Trust to sequence the genome of Proteus mirabilis strain HI4320 in collaboration with Prof. Harry Mobley at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, U.S.A.

Proteus mirabilis is a gram negative bacterium that is a cause of Urinary Tract infections in humans, often resulting in the production of urinary stones.

The sequence is now finished, and is available for searching on our Blast Server, or for download from our FTP site.

The chromosome is 4.063 Mb with a G+C content of 38.88%, and there is a single plasmid of 36.289 kb. A preliminary gene prediction, with systematic gene identifiers, in Artemis format, is now available to download.

The shotgun reads are still available; there are 46,003 reads totalling 31.338 Mb and giving a theoretical coverage of 99.97% of the genome.

The sequence and analysis of both the genome and plasmid are described in Pearson et al., J Bacteriol.,190, 4027-37. 2008.