Table 1.

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


Gene region

DFR

Contents
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.

[i] 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.