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GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STRAINS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Zhuldyz Oral 1 , Abilay Sansyzbay 1 , Yerlan Pazylov 2 , Maxat Berdikulov 2 , Gulzhan Mussayeva 2

1 NJSC "Kazakh National Agrarian Research University"; 2 National Veterinary Reference Center

doi.org/10.37884/4-2025/07 pp. 56-65 Admitted 29.08.2025 Published 30.12.2025

Abstract

This article is based on a comparison of the course and changes in the molecular and genetic characteristics of Bacillus anthracis strains in recent years, the effectiveness of new methods and the results of various proven research papers. In the global phylogenetic structure, B. anthracis is divided into three main genetic groups: A, B, and C. The distribution of the three groups of strains is uneven: about 90% belong to group A, while 10% belong to group B and 0.1% belong to group C. They make up a small part. Of the 35 main genetic proteins of group A, 8 are variable, the rest are reference strains, Spo0J is one variant, but the gene of the Tsiankovskii-1 SNP 705t→C strain is synonymous with this gene. Spo0M has two variants of sizes 252 and 251 hp, the latter is distinguished by a deletion of T67, a deletion of the 198-200 gene. SpoIID is two variants, reference and 351/520 (canSNP group A. Br.Aust94), which is a synonym for SNP 927C→Tc2, respectively. SpoVAD-338 hp. The speed of two non-homologous variants is found in all strains of group A. The conservation of proteins SpoIIE, phase II of sporulation P, SpoIIR, SpoIIIAA, SpoIIIAB, SpoIIIAE, SpoIIIAG, Spoiiiid, SpoIVFA, SpoIVFB, SpoVAA, SpoVAE, SpoVID, Cdas, YlbJ, and KinA is also characteristic of group strains of B. anthracis. In contrast, KinB is present in three genes in group A of the sensor histidine kinases of B. anthracis strains.

Bacillus anthracis GenBank NCBI strain gene proteins deletion

01 Introduction

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