Table 1.
The number of matches to the antibiotic-binding aptamer descriptors in bacterial genomes (‘Obs.’) and the expected number of matches calculated using random sequences with uniformly distributed nucleotides (‘Exp.’)
| Genome (NCBI accession number) | Size (Mb) | Chloramphenicol | Streptomycin | Neomycin B | Total Obs. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obs. | Exp. | Obs. | Exp. | Obs. | Exp. | |||
| Streptomyces avermitilis (NC_003155) | 9.2 | 0 | 3.1 | 2 | 0.7 | 6 | 19.8 | 8 |
| Streptomyces coelicolor (NC_003888) | 8.8 | 0 | 2.9 | 1 | 0.7 | 1 | 18.9 | 2 |
| Escherichia coli K12 (U00096) | 4.7 | 7 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.4 | 11 | 10.1 | 19 |
| Escherichia coli O157:H7 (BA000007) | 5.6 | 7 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.4 | 17 | 12.0 | 25 |
| Escherichia coli O157:H7 EDL933 (AE005174) | 5.6 | 7 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.4 | 19 | 12.0 | 27 |
| Escherichia coli CFT073 (AE014075) | 5.3 | 7 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.4 | 17 | 11.4 | 24 |
| Neisseria meningitidis MC58 (AE002098) | 2.3 | 1 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.2 | 9 | 4.9 | 10 |
| Neisseria meningitidis Z2491 (AL157959) | 2.2 | 5 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.2 | 9 | 4.7 | 14 |
| Sinorhizobium meliloti (AL591688) | 3.7 | 1 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 7.9 | 5 |
| Chlamydia trachomatis (NC_000117) | 1.1 | 4 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 | 2.4 | 5 |
| Total | 39 | 7 | 93 | 139 | ||||
The motif matches are generated by the RNAMotif program without any filtering.