Species code:	PYRHO
Taxonomy:	Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Thermococci; Thermococcales; Thermococcaceae; Pyrococcus (TaxID: 53953) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Hyperthermophile found in the hot waters of the Okinawa Trench. Can grow at high temperatures, favoring a temperature of 98 degrees Celsius.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins: 12 in 12 different sequences
Statistics:	Number of PYRHO entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2077 (458 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 1619 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number BA000001 (circular; 1,738,505 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=98344137; PubMed=9679194; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Kawarabayasi Y., Sawada M., Horikawa H., Haikawa Y., Hino Y., Yamamoto S., Sekine M., Baba S., Kosugi H., Hosoyama A., Nagai Y., Sakai M., Ogura K., Otsuka R., Nakazawa H., Takamiya M., Ohfuku Y., Funahashi T., Tanaka T., Kudoh Y., Yamazaki J., Kushida N., Oguchi A., Aoki K., Yoshizawa T., Nakamura Y., Robb F.T., Horikoshi K., Masuchi Y., Shizuya H., Kikuchi H. ; "Complete sequence and gene organization of the genome of a hyper-thermophilic archaebacterium, Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3."; DNA Res. 5:55-76(1998).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/dogan/MicroTop?GENOME_ID=ot3_G1 Other web sites: ARCHAIC db: http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/archaic/ CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Archaea&GLgenus=Pyrococcus&GLspecies=horikoshii&GLstrain=OT3 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid70601%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Phor_OT3 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/archaea/Pyrococcus_horikoshii.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p207_Pyr_horik TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntph01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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