TABLE 2.
Comparison of 16S rRNA sequences of GPAC species obtained in this study with the sequences in GenBank
| Species | Strain | Accession no. | Identity as determined by:
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Comparison with sequence of corresponding strain in GenBank by CLUSTAL W alignmenta
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| BLAST (%) | RDP-II (score) | Accession no. | Comments | |||
| Anaerococcus lactolyticus | CCUG 31351T | AF542233 | Anaerococcus lactolyticus (98.0) | Anaerococcus lactolyticus (0.916) | D14154 | 14-Base divergence; 15-ambiguities |
| Anaerococcus prevotii | CCUG 41932T | AF542232 | Peptostreptococcus sp. clone KL-59-7-12 (97.8)b | Anaerococcus prevotii (0.871) | D14139 | 37-Base divergence; 9-ambiguities |
| Anaerococcus tetradius | CCUG 46590T | AF542234 | Anaerococcus tetradius (97.4) | Anaerococcus tetradius (0.820) | D14142 | 67-Base divergence; 8-ambiguities |
| Anaerococcus vaginalis | CCUG 31349T | AF542229 | Anaerococcus vaginalis (97.9) | Anaerococcus vaginalis (0.905) | D14146 | 17-Base divergence; 10-ambiguities |
| Finegoldia magna | CCUG 17636T | AF542227 | Finegoldia magna (98.0) | Finegoldia magna (0.850) | D14149 | 23-Base divergence; 18-ambiguities; 12-base gap |
| Micromonas micros | CCUG 46357T | AF542231 | Peptostreptococcus sp. oral clone FG014 (99.6)c | Micromonas micros (0.889) | D14143 | 14-Base divergence; 9-ambiguities |
| Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus | CCUG 9988T | AF542228 | Peptostreptococcus sp. strain S1 (97.9)d | Peptostreptococcus sp. strain S1 (0.916) | D14138 | 14-Base divergence; 15-ambiguities |
| Peptoniphilus indolicus | CCUG 17639T | AY153431 | Peptostreptococcus sp. strain S1 (99.2)e | Peptostreptococcus sp. strain S1 (0.960)e | D14147 | 141-Base divergence; 4-ambiguities |
| Peptoniphilus lacrimalis | CCUG 31350T | AF542230 | Peptoniphilus lacrimalis (97.9) | Peptoniphilus lacrimalis (0.816) | D14141 | 46-Base divergence; 4-ambiguities |
| Anaerococcus octavius | CCUG 38493T | Anaerococcus octavius (100) | Anaerococcus octavius (1.000) | Y07841 | ||
| Peptoniphilus harei | CCUG 38491T | Peptoniphilus harei (100) | Peptoniphilus harei (1.000) | Y07839 | ||
| Peptoniphilus ivorii | CCUG 38492T | Peptoniphilus ivorii (100) | Peptoniphilus ivorii (1.000) | Y07840 | ||
| Peptostreptococcus anaerobius | CCUG 7835T | Peptostreptococus anaerobius (99.5) | Peptostreptococcus anaerobius (0.992) | L04168 | 8-Ambiguities | |
All of the sequences were cut to identical positions along the 16S rRNA gene, corresponding to E. coli basepair positions 49 to 1450.
The BLAST search showed only a 96.4% sequence similarity with A. prevotii (D14139) in GenBank.
The BLAST search showed only a 98% sequence similarity with M. micros (D14143) in GenBank.
The BLAST search showed only a 96.5% sequence similarity with Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus (D14138) in GenBank.
GenBank sequence (D14147) of Peptostreptococcus indolicus was not shown on the BLAST match list due to the low sequence similarity. Pairwise analysis indicated that it shared 98.0% similarity with the sequence of the Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus type strain determined in this study.