Genome Structure
B. anthracis has a single chromosome which is a circular, 5,227,293 bp DNA molecule. It also has two circular, extrachromosomal, double-stranded DNA plasmids, pXO1 and pXO2. Both the pXO1 and pXO2 plasmids are required for full virulence and represent two distinct plasmid families.
Feature | Chromosome | pXO1 | pXO2 |
---|---|---|---|
Size (bp) | 5,227,293 | 181,677 | 94,829 |
Number of genes | 5,508 | 217 | 113 |
Replicon coding (%) | 84.3 | 77.1 | 76.2 |
Average gene length (nt) | 800 | 645 | 639 |
G+C content (%) | 35.4 | 32.5 | 33.0 |
rRNA operons | 11 | 0 | 0 |
tRNAs | 95 | 0 | 0 |
sRNAs | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Phage genes | 62 | 0 | 0 |
Transposon genes | 18 | 15 | 6 |
Disrupted reading frame | 37 | 5 | 7 |
Genes with assigned function | 2,762 | 65 | 38 |
Conserved hypothetical genes | 1,212 | 22 | 19 |
Genes of unknown function | 657 | 8 | 5 |
Hypothetical genes | 877 | 122 | 51 |
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