Shigella

Shigella is a genus of Gram negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria, closely related to Salmonella.

Data Downloads

• FTP site

• BLAST server

The Sanger Institute was funded to perform comparative sequencing of five Escherichia coli and Shigella strains in collaboration with Dr. Christoph Tang of the Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College, London, Prof. Mark Pallen and Dr. Ian Henderson of the Division of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Claude Parsot and Dr. Phillipe Sansonetti of the Unite de Pathologie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, France, Dr. Gadi Frankel, of the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London, and Dr. Stuart Knutton of the Institute of Child Health, Birmingham.

These strains included Shigella dysenteriae M131649 (M131). This project is still in finishing/gap closure.

The Sanger Istitute was also funded to sequence the genome of Shigella sonnei 53G.

Published Genome Data

The fully sequenced genome of Shigella sonnei 53G is available from EMBL/GenBank. The chromosome has accession number HE616528, plasmid A has HE616529, plasmid B: HE616530, plasmid C: HE616531 and plasmid E has HE616532.