General Information of MIC (ID: MIC00206)
MIC Name	Bifidobacterium angulatum (actinobacteria)
Body Site	Gut
Lineage	Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Class: Actinobacteria Order: Bifidobacteriales Family: Bifidobacteriaceae Genus: Bifidobacterium Species: Bifidobacterium angulatum
Oxygen Sensitivity	Obligate anaerobe
Microbial Metabolism	Saccharolytic; Fermentative
Gram	Positive
Host Relationship	Commensal
Genome Size (bp)	2021974
No. of Coding Genes	1523
No. of Non-Coding Genes	57
No. of Small Non-Coding Genes	57
No. of Gene Transcripts	1580
No. of Base Pairs	2003806
Description	Bifidobacterium angulatum is a species of anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. B. angulatum is generally found in V-shaped arrangements and is a commensal part of the normal human gastrointestinal tract flora.
External Links	Taxonomy ID	1683
	Genome Assembly ID	Bifang
	GOLD Organism ID	Go0252994
Disease Relevance
Clostridium difficile enterocolitis  [ICD-11: 1A04]
Description	Numbers of Bifidobacterium angulatum were greatly reduced in Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea patients				[1]

Host Genetic Factors (HGFs)
rs651821
HGF ID	HGF1924	HGF Info	Class	Single Nucleotide Polymorphism: Prime UTR variant (SNP-PV)
Description	The APOA5 SNP rs651821 might be an important host genetic factor in determining the abundances of the health-promoting Bifidobacterium bacteria and the taxa to which this genus belongs.				[2]

Environmental Factor(s)
Disbiome ID			187
gutMDisorder ID			gm0105

References
1	Changes in predominant bacterial populations in human faeces with age and with Clostridium difficile infection. J Med Microbiol. 2002 May;51(5):448-454. doi: 10.1099/0022-1317-51-5-448.
2	The effect of heritability and host genetics on the gut microbiota and metabolic syndrome.Gut. 2017 Jun;66(6):1031-1038. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-311326. Epub 2016 Apr 6.

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