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. 2008 Apr 28;76(7):3100–3115. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00015-08

TABLE 2.

Characteristics of genes in mel and mrl loci

Gene locus Similar organism (gene)a E value (score)b % Identity (no. of aa)c Other similarities or motifsd Putative activity
mel3
    melL M. smegmatis (pknD) 3e-94 (349) 66 (272) S_TKc, DUF477 Serine/threonine kinase
mel4
    melM M. tuberculosis (Rv2315c) 0.0 (859) 86 (505) COG0312, Zn-dep.prot. Protease
    melN M. tuberculosis (Rv2314c) 0.0 (711) 84 (457) COG0312, Zn-dep.prot. Protease
    melO M. tuberculosis (Rv2313) 5e-113 (410) 84 (283) COG2128, unchar.cons.prot. Unknown
    melP N. farcinica (nfa42450) 3e-13 (78.6) 52 (91) None Unknown
mrl1
    mrlA Arthrobacter sp. (Arth4051) 2e-47 (194) 46 (276) COG1922, teich.ac.syn. Cell wall biogenesis
    mrlB M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP0964c) 0.0 (704) 71 (507) COG2148, sug.trans.lps, COG1086, nuc.diph.ep. Cell wall biogenesis
    mrlC M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP0963c) 3e-150 (535) 68 (488) pfam01943, polys.syn., COG0728, MviN Cell wall biogenesis
    mrlD M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP0962c) 0.0 (685) 63 (663) COG1216, glyc.tran., pfam00534, glyc.tran1 Cell wall biogenesis
    mrlE M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP0961c) 8e-125 (449) 72 (349) COG0438, glyc.tran. Cell wall biogenesis
mrl2
    mrlF M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3191) 0.0 (646) 87 (370) pfam04209, hom.diox. Phe and Tyr metabolism
    mrlG M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3192) 0.0 (711) 87 (392) COG1506, dip.amin.pep. Amino acid transport/metabolism
    mrlH M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3193) 0.0 (685) 90 (396) COG1804, acCoA-trans. Lipid transport/metabolism
    mrlI M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3194) 2e-104 (381) 81 (301) pfam00682, aldolase Metabolism
    mrlJ M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3195) 1e-87 (325) 80 (213) pfam00440, TetR_N, COG1309, AcrR Transcriptional regulation
    mrlK M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (FadE12-3) 0.0 (734) 87 (412) cd00567, ACAD Lipid metabolism
    mrlL M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3197) 3e-89 (322) 75 (264) COG1960, ACAD pfam01636, phosphotr. Metabolism
    mrlM M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3198) 5e-37 (156) 62 (129) COG3631, ketost.isom. Metabolism
    mrlN M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP3199) 2e-56 (221) 64 (173) pfam04264, YceI Unknown
    mrlO M. tuberculosis (Rv3143) 7e-55 (216) 88 (130) Cd00156, sig.rec. Signal receiver
a

That is, the organism that carries the protein most similar to that encoded by the M. marinum gene identified, along with the name of the corresponding gene in that organism in parentheses.

b

The expectation frequency (E value) is a parameter that describes the significance of the sequence match and the score of the sequence match according to NCBI protein-protein BLAST when it is compared to the closest homologue.

c

The percent identity at the amino acid (aa) level and the number of amino acids (in parentheses) that could be aligned to show this level of identity.

d

This column indicates the placement of the putative protein product into a cluster of orthologues (COG or KOG [eukaryotic]) using the CD-Search at NCBI and SignalP v.1.1 at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis website. COG, clusters of orthologous groups; KOG, clusters of orthologous groups for eukaryotic genomes; pfam, protein family; cd, conserved domain; S_TKc, serine/threonine protein kinase catalytic domain; DUF477, domain of unknown function found in Eukarya and Eubacteria; Zn-dep.prot., Zn-dependent proteases; unchar.cons.prot., uncharacterized conserved protein; teich.ac.syn., teichoic acid synthesis proteins; sug.trans.lps, sugar transferases involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis; nuc.diph.ep., predicted nucleoside-diphosphate sugar epimerase; polys.syn., polysaccharide biosynthesis protein; MviN, uncharacterized membrane protein thought to be involved in virulence; glyc.tran., predicted glycosyltransferases; glyc.tran1, glycosyl transferases group 1; hom.diox., homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase involved in the metabolism of Phe and Tyr; dip.amin.pep., dipeptidyl aminopeptidases/acylaminoacyl-peptidases; TetR_N, TetR family bacterial regulatory proteins; AcrR, AcrR family of transcriptional regulators; ACAD, acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase; phosphotr., phosphotransferase enzyme family; ketost.isom., ketosteroid isomerase; YceI, E. coli YceI-like family of inducible periplasmic proteins; sig.rec., signal receiver domain.