FIG. 2.

Alignment of the N-terminal end of RF2. The last preshift and first postshift amino acids are boldfaced. For the sources of the sequences, see the reference for each organism, as follows: A. aeolicus (38), Bacillus firmus (4), B. subtilis (33), Borrelia burgdorferi (14), Chlamydia trachomatis (37), C. acetobutylicum (15), Deinococcus radiodurans (15a), E. coli (8), Haemophilus influenzae (13), Helicobacter pylori (39), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (31), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (27), Mycobacterium leprae (12), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (30), Salmonella typhimurium (19), S. coelicolor (25), Streptococcus pneumoniae (15a), Streptococcus pyogenes (32), Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 (17), and Treponema pallidum (38).