TABLE 2.
Features of C. burnetii plasmids
| Statistic | Plasmid
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|---|---|---|---|
| QpH1 | QpRS | QpDG | |
| Size of plasmid (bp) | 37,393 | 39,280 | 54,179 |
| Coding region (%) | 81.0 | 79.6 | 84.9 |
| G+C content (%) | 39.3 | 39.7 | 39.8 |
| No. of ORFs | |||
| Total (including ORFs comprising pseudogenes) | 50 | 48 | 66 |
| With assigned function | 19 | 20 | 26 |
| Without assigned function | 32 | 28 | 40 |
| In asserted pathways | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Not in asserted pathways | 46 | 42 | 58 |
| With assigned function but no pathway | 14 | 14 | 18 |
| Full-length | 35 | 38 | 53 |
| Comprising pseudogenes (total pseudogenes) | 15 (10) | 10 (6) | 13 (7) |
| Encoding transposases | 0 | 0 | 1 |