What is the function and purpose of listeria innocua cell?
Listeria innocua is one of six species which belongs to the Listeria genus. It is commonly present in the atmosphere and in food sources (such as soil). This can live at extreme pH and temperature, and high salt. This is a rod shaped Gram-positive bacterium, in nature. It is a bacterium which forms non-spore.
They may live separately with other Listeria innocua bacteria, or group into chains. This is a mesophile, working at an optimum 30-37 degree Celsius temperature range. Listeria innocua is very much like its other membranes of the family, the pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria innocua was isolated from meat using a technique called immunofluroscence at the surface adhesion.
Genome:
Listeria innocua has a circular chromosome consisting of 3,011,209 base pairs with a value of 37% G+C. Only 2,973 genes coding for proteins were discovered in L.Innocua, through 37 percent of genes could not be predicted for any role. The genome encodes a wide range of proteins that are regulatory, surface, and transport. This explains why species of Listeria adapt to and inhabit such a wide variety of environments. In a 10-kb virulence locus, a gene cluster that engenders pathogenicity to Listeria monocytogenes, Listeria innocua has been found to be deficient. It accounts for why L. Innocua does not usually infect humans or animals. This also has an 81905 base pair circular plasmid whose purpose is unknown.
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