TABLE 2.

Putative biofilm-induced proteins and their homologues

IVET clone ORF (no. of nucleotides)	Size (aa)	Selected homologuesa	Function	% Iden- tityc	% Simi- larityd	GenBank accession no.
9.27A PA0240 (1266)	421	PhaK-like protein, P. putida	Putative porin	71	82	AF031417
		Pflu_p_1331, Pseudomonas fluorescens	Hypothetical protein	69	81	AABA01000097
		Psyr0433, Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a	Hypothetical protein			AABH01000001
		BenF, P. putida	Benzoate-specific porin-like protein	42	61	AF218267
9.29 PA2247 (1233)	410	BkdA1, P. putida	2-Oxoisovalerate dehydrogenase (alpha subunit)	79	88	AAA65614
		BkdA1, Mesorhizobium loti	2-Oxoisovalerate dehydrogenase (alpha subunit)	64	76	AP003004
9.27B and C PA3710 (1674)	557	Pflu_p_4963, P. fluorescens	Hypothetical protein	76	85	AABA01000160
		SMc03116, Sinorhizobium meliloti	Putative alcohol dehydrogenase protein	63	76	AL591792
		CC1278, C. crescentus	Oxidoreductase, GMC family	55	68	AE005802
		AlkJ, P. putida	Aliphatic alcohol dehydrogenase	40	57	AJ233397
3.15 PA3782 (954)	317	Z0442, E. coli O157:H7	Transcriptional regulator	48	67	CAB87229
		mlr2766, M. loti	Transcriptional regulator	49	63	BAB49814
		AdpA, S. griseus	AraC-like transcriptional regulator; streptomycin and aerial mycelium production	48	62	BAA86265
		AdpA, S. coelicolorb	AraC-like transcriptional regulator	47	62	CAB87229
9.27D and E PA5065 (1602)	542	UbiB, E. coli	Ubiquinone biosynthesis	56	70	D65188
		UbiB, Vibrio choleraeb	Ubiquinone biosynthesis	55	69	AAF93263
		UbiB (AarF), Providencia stuartii	Ubiquinone biosynthesis	59	74	AAB96577
		UbiB, Neisseria meningitidis	Ubiquinone biosynthesis	57	72	AAF40987

^aHomologous proteins, identity, and similarity scores were determined by the BLASTp program at NCBI.

^bHypothetical protein.

^cIdentical amino acids.

^dIdentical plus conserved amino acids.