Editing Mycobacterium (section)

=== Genomics ===
Hundreds of ''Mycobacterium'' genomes have been completely sequenced.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JGI GOLD {{!}} Projects |url=https://gold.jgi.doe.gov/projects?Project.Is+Public=Yes&Organism.Organism+Name=Mycobacterium&Organism.Organism+Name=Mycobacterium&Project.Project+Status=Complete+and+Published&Project.Is+Public=Yes&Project.Project+Status=Complete+and+Published |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=gold.jgi.doe.gov}}</ref>

The genome sizes of mycobacteria range from relatively small ones (e.g. in ''M. leprae'') to quite large ones, such as that as ''[[Mycobacterium vulneris|M. vulneris]],'' encoding 6,653 proteins, larger than the ~6000 proteins of [[Eukaryote|eukaryotic]] [[Saccharomyces cerevisiae|yeast]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Croce O, Robert C, Raoult D, Drancourt M |date=May 2014 |title=Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium vulneris DSM 45247T |journal=Genome Announcements |volume=2 |issue=3 |doi=10.1128/genomeA.00370-14 |pmc=4014686 |pmid=24812218}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Protein-Coding Genomic Information
!Organism
!Number of Protein Coding Genes
|-
|''M. intracellulare''
|5,289<ref>{{Cite web |title=UniProt |url=https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000595205 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mycobacterium colombiense|''M. colombiense'']]
|5,084<ref>{{Cite web |title=UniProt |url=https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000250915 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref>
|-
|''M. leprae''
|1,603<ref name="uniprot_UP000000806">{{Cite web |title=UniProt |url=https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000000806 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref>
|-
|''M. tuberculosis''
|3,995<ref name="uniprot_UP000000806"/>
|-
|''M. smegmatis''
|6,602<ref>{{Cite web |title=UniProt |url=https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000000757 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref>
|-
|''M. chelonae''
|4,948<ref>{{Cite web |title=UniProt |url=https://www.uniprot.org/proteomes/UP000317728 |access-date=2023-05-07 |website=www.uniprot.org}}</ref>
|}