TABLE 2.
groEL nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities among reference strains of species
| Species | % groEL sequence similarityb
|
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| 1. S. anginosus | 97.6 | 97.6 | 95.7 | 95.7 | 91.3 | 91.5 | 90.8 | 89.5 | 89.6 | 88.5 | |
| 2. S. constellatus | 91.0 | 97.8 | 95.2 | 95.6 | 91.1 | 91.5 | 90.0 | 89.3 | 89.3 | 88.9 | |
| 3. S. intermedius | 90.1 | 95.2 | 96.1 | 96.3 | 91.7 | 92.1 | 90.6 | 89.6 | 88.9 | 88.7 | |
| 4. S. sanguis | 82.0 | 81.6 | 82.1 | 95.9 | 91.9 | 91.7 | 90.4 | 88.7 | 88.2 | 88.0 | |
| 5. S. gordonii | 82.8 | 83.4 | 84.3 | 87.0 | 93.0 | 93.0 | 91.7 | 89.5 | 88.9 | 88.2 | |
| 6. S. oralis | 80.8 | 81.3 | 81.4 | 80.5 | 81.8 | 99.1 | 97.8 | 88.9 | 87.8 | 88.7 | |
| 7. S. mitis | 81.2 | 82.0 | 82.4 | 79.7 | 82.0 | 92.8 | 98.3 | 89.1 | 88.4 | 88.7 | |
| 8. S. pneumoniaea | 80.1 | 80.6 | 80.9 | 80.0 | 81.4 | 90.6 | 93.6 | 87.6 | 87.4 | 87.4 | |
| 9. S. bovis | 80.2 | 80.5 | 81.8 | 77.3 | 78.0 | 79.5 | 79.7 | 79.9 | 90.4 | 92.1 | |
| 10. S. mutans | 79.6 | 80.2 | 80.5 | 77.2 | 78.2 | 77.9 | 79.1 | 78.6 | 81.6 | 91.1 | |
| 11. S. salivarius | 77.9 | 78.7 | 79.1 | 78.7 | 79.1 | 79.3 | 78.7 | 78.6 | 82.8 | 79.6 | |
a
The S. pneumoniae groEL sequence data were from GenBank accession number AF117741.
b
Data in the lower left portion indicate nucleotide sequence similarity, and data in the upper right portion indicate amino acid sequence similarity. The numbers in the subheads represent the species numbered in the leftmost column.