Table 4.

Divergence in the 20.4 kb NCTC 11168 Lipo-oligosaccharide Biosynthetic Locus in the Campylobacter jejuni Strains Studied

Gene name Function[iii] Clone content (%) Phase variable[iv] 81116 81-176 X G1 P1 P2 P3 P4 PHLS 01 PHLS 02 PHLS 03
Cj1131 galE Cj1131 (73)+++++++++++
Cj1132 unknown Cj1132(80)+++++++++++
Cj1133 (11)
Cj1133 waaC Cj1132(20)(+)+(+)(+)+(+)++−++
Cj1133(100) 
Cj1134(19) 
Cj1134 htrB Cj1134(67)+++++++++++
Cj1135(4)
Cj1135 glycosyltransferase Cj1135(53)−+++++−++++
Cj1136 glycosyltransferase Cj1136(89)−(+)++++−−+++
Cj1137(3)   
Cj1137 unknown Cj1136(13)−(+)++−(+)(+)−+(+)+
Cj1137(100)   
Cj1138(18)   
Cj1138 galactosyltransferase Cj1138(67)−−++(+)+(+)−+++
Cj1139 wlaN [v] Cj1138(30)√−−++++−−+++
Cj1139(96)    
Cj1140 cst Cj1140(93)−−++++(+)−+++
Cj1141(47)   
Cj1141 neuBl [vi] Cj1140(26)−+++(+)+−−+++
Cj1141(100)   
Cj1142(6)   
Cj1142 neuCl [vi] Cj1141(29)−(+)++++−−+++
Cj1142(98)   
Cj1143 neuAl [vi] Cj1143(42)−−++++−−+++
Cj1144 unknown Cj1143(15)√−−++++−−+++
Cj1144(75)    
Cj1145 unknown Cj1143(3)√(+)++++−−−(+)++
Cj1144(100)   
Cj1145(100)   
Cj1146(76)   
Cj1146 waaV Cj1146(89)++++++(+)(+)+(+)+
Cj1148(9)
Cj1148 waaF Cj1148(80)+++++++++++
Cj1149(2)
Cj1149 gmhA Cj1149(92)+++++++++++
Cj1150(27)
Cj1150 rfaE Cj1149(23)++++++(+)(+)++(+)
Cj1150(94)
Cj1151 rfaD Cj1150(35)+++++++++++
Cj1151(83)
Cj1152 phosphatase Cj1152(76)+++++++++++
Cj1153(100)

[i] A + or − indicates that the red/green hypridization signal intensity ratio is >0.5 or <0.5, respectively.

[ii] (+) indicates the possibility that the gene may be absent or highly divergent even though the red/green hybridization signal intensity ratio is >0.5 (see Methods).

[iii] Putative gene function based on annotation (Parkhill et al. 2000).

[iv] Genes contain intragenic homopolymeric tracts indicating potential phase variable expression (Parkhill et al. 2000).

[v] Linton et al. 2000b.

[vi] Linton et al. 2000a.

[vii] NB: Cj1447 was originally designated a CDS, but was unannotated in the final genome annotation (Parkhill et al. 2000).