Table 4.

C. crescentus genes identified for Mismatch Repair pathway

Genes in E. coli (protein size)	Description	Orthologs in C. crescentus	Similarity with E. coli a
dam (278 aa)	Methylase GATC	absent
mutH (229 aa)	Endonuclease GATC	absent
mutL (615 aa)	DNA mismatch repair protein	CC0695	188/331 (56%)
mutS (853 aa)	DNA mismatch repair protein	CC0012	461/842 (55%)
vsr (156 aa)	Very short patch repair protein	CC3624	74/127 (58%)

a. numbers indicate similarity within local alignment in aminoacids (aa).