. 2006 Oct 6;188(24):8534–8542. doi: 10.1128/JB.00846-06

TABLE 1.

Identified genes related to transformability

Gene category	Gene name	bp
Competency^a	comF^c	435
	comE	510
	comC	4,353
	comB	969
	smf	1,152
	comM	1,488
	pilD	861
	pilC	1,227
	pilB	1,740
	pilU	1,152
	pilT	1,035
	comL	1,056
	comF^d	642
	comP	444
	comA	2,379
Recombination^b	recA	1,050
	recB	3,705
	recC	3,666
	recD	1,779
	recG	2,061
	recJ	1,707
	recN	1,662
	recO	711
	ruvA	615
	ruvB	1,005
	ruvC	576
	pepA	1,449
	xerD	918
	xerC	918
	himD	306
	himA	732
	ssb	579
	polA	2,763
	ligA	2,031
	gyrB	2,469
	gyrA	2,730

Competency genes are as listed previously (3, 7, 20, 25, 31, 36).

Recombination-associated genes are those present in the A. baylyi genome of those listed previously (38) and genes listed as recombination associated (3).

comF (ACIAD3314) is part of the comFECB operon (7) that was disrupted in this study.

comF (ACIAD3236) is a homologue of Haemophilus influenzae comF (3).