Application of DNA Microarrays to Study the Evolutionary Genomics of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Table 1.

Regions of the CO-92 Genome That Are Absent or Highly Divergent in All 10 Y. pseudotuberculosis Strains Tested


Gene region

DFR

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YPO387-397 Hypothetical proteins similar to hypothetical protein from Xylella fastidiosa, Neisseria meningitidis and Deinococcus radiodurans
YPO1087-1088 DFR2 Putative prophage proteins.
YPO1094-1098 DFR2 Putative prophage and hypothetical proteins.
YPO1668-1672 Putative membrane protein yihN.
YjgF-family lipoprotein.
Putative DNA-binding protein.
YPO2084-2130 Putative prophage proteins.
YPO2261 Hypothetical protein.
YPO2271-2281 DFR5 Putative prophage proteins.
YPO2503 Hypothetical protein.
YPO2380 DFR6 sepC: Similar to Serratia entomophila plasmid pADAP virulence protein SepC and to Photorhabdus luminescens insecticidal toxin complex protein TccC.
YPO3910 Similar to Escherichia coli vitamin B12 receptor protein BtuB.
YPO4031-4032

Similar to Serratia marcescens transcriptional activator regC, and hypothetical protein.
  • List of regions deemed absent from all 10 strains of Y. pseudotuberculosis. Regions that correspond to the difference region s(DFRs) identified by Radnedge et al. (2002) are indicated. Gene functions as assigned upon annotation of the CO-92 sequence are also indicated.

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