FIG. 5.

(A) Schematic representation of the genome region including bopA in Bifidobacterium bifidum MIMBb75. The number in parentheses after the putative promoter refers to the Neural Network Promoter Prediction probability. The white open arrows refer to the target of the primers indicated below. (B) Putative domain architecture of BopA from B. bifidum MIMBb75 shown with the first 30 amino acids of BopA and containing the signal peptide and the lipobox (underlined). The cleavage site for thioacylation, between Ala-25 and Cys-26, is indicated with a white triangle. The number in parentheses refers to the SignalP-HMM probability of the signal peptide. TM, transmembrane region. A BLAST search was used to assign putative biological roles to the genes or domains.