The Sanger Institute, funded by Beowulf Genomics, has completed the sequencing of and recently published the genome of Yersinia enterocolitica, in collaboration with Dr. Mike Prentice of the Department of Microbiology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and Dr. Elisabeth Carniel of the Yersinia Laboratory, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Yersinia enterocolitica is a cause of gastroenteritis, and is closely related to the causative agent of plague, Y. pestis; we are sequencing strain 8081. This has been deposited at the UK NCTC as strain 13174

The complete sequence consists of a chromosome of 4,615,899 bp, with a G+C content of 47.27%, and a plasmid (pYVe8081) of 67,721 bp, with a G+C content of 43.92%. The data is available for download by FTP and can be searched using our BLAST server.

The complete chromosome sequence and annotation of the Yersinia enterocolitica genome can now be accessed here. Both the sequence and annotation have been deposited in the public databases with the accession number AM286415.

Reference:

"The Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of the High Pathogenicity Yersinia enterocolitica Strain 8081" PLoS Genetics, 2, e206. (2006).

Nicholas R. Thomson, Sarah Howard, Brendan W. Wren, Matthew T. G. Holden, Lisa Crossman, Gregory L. Challis, Carol Churcher, Karen Mungall, Karen Brooks, Tracey Chillingworth, Theresa Feltwell, Zahra Abdellah, Heidi Hauser, Kay Jagels, Mark Maddison, Sharon Moule, Mandy Sanders, Sally Whitehead, Michael A. Quail, Gordon Dougan, Julian Parkhill and Michael B. Prentice.