TABLE 1.

Identification of Cl⁻-induced proteins of H. halophilus by N-terminal sequence analyses and BLAST searches

Protein	N-terminal sequence	Induction (fold)	Similaritya	Organism	Function(s)
1	...ALSDIPDKYASEI...	25	Putative protein	Streptomyces coelicolor	ABC transporter, ATP-binding protein
2	MKVLVVGANGQIGKHLVSTIQESNKLEAKAMI...	2.5	YhfK	B. subtilis	Unknown
3	...AKFELPELPYAYDALEPTIDKETM...	10	SodA	B. subtilis	Superoxide-dismutase
4	MLQYTIRGENLEVTDSIKDYVEKKVGK...	6	YvyD	B. subtilis	σL modulator
5	MQMNVEVFNLDHTKVKAP...	3.3	LuxS	Helicobacter pylori	Autoinducer synthesis
6	NDb	5

^aHighest similarity in a BLAST search.

^bND, not determined.