Table 1.

ORFs in the flanking regions of bca and their homologies to other bacterial proteins

ORF	Position	Length, aa	Homologous protein
			Function	Species	Length, aa	Statistical significance, P	% Identity/ % similarity	Accession no.
1	1–289	96	Dehydrogenase	Haloferax volcanii	389	5e-20	50/60	AAB71801
2	409–1,242	278	Putative reductase protein	Bacillus subtilis	276	8e-53	42/63	CAB15345
3	1,327–2,190	288	czcD, zinc responsible operon*	Staphylococcus aureus	325	3e-22	22/45	BAA36686
4	2,322–2,846	175	Putative transcriptional regulator	Streptomyces coelicolor	216	1e-08	24/44	CAB55667
5	3,041–3,559	173	msmR, multiple sugar metabolism regulator	Streptococcus pyogenes	209	7e-16	31/54	AAC97150
6	3,666–4,235	190	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	8,118–8,444	108	Integrase	Bacteriophage phi-LC3	374	2e-06	30/46	A47085
8	8,879–9,179	100	Predicted coding region	Helicobacter pylori	99	2e-04	39/56	AAD07951
9	9,181–9,519	112	Unknown	Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum	99	4e-15	31/68	AE000906
10	9,539–10,303	254	Methyltransferase	Haemophilus influenzae	251	2e-69	52/66	057060
11	10,421–12,167	578	Putative transcriptional regulator	Bacillus stearothermophilus	697	2e-19	21/42	AAC44464
12	12,666–13,115	149	Phosphotransferase system fructose-specific enzyme IIBC component	Bacillus halodurans	160	2e-12	30/49	BAA75339
13	13,119–13,406	95	Phosphotransferase system, galactitol-specific IIB component	Escherichia coli	94	.004	25/49	P37188
14	13,425–13,685	334	Phosphotransferase system, galactilol-specific IIC component	Escherichia coli	334	2e-11	37/62	BAA15959

^*Also homologous to cation transport proteins in multiple species.