TABLE 1.

General features of the S. carnosus TM300 chromosome in comparison with selected other staphylococcal species representatives

Parameter	Value in:
	Staphylococcus carnosus TM300	Staphylococcus aureus N315	Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A	Staphylococcus haemolyticus JCSC1435	Staphylococcus saprophyticus ATCC15305
Size (bp)	2,566,428	2,814,816	2,616,530	2,685,015	2,516,575
Coding density (%)	86.0	83.4	83.9	86	83.5
G+C content (%)
Total	34.6	32.8	32.1	32.8	33.2
Coding sequences	35.2	33.6	32.9	33.4	34.0
No. of coding sequences	2,474	2,593	2,553	2,678	2,446
No. of RNAs
23S	5	5	6	5	6
16S	5	5	6	5	6
5S	5	6	7	6	7
tRNAs	60	62	61	60	60
tmRNAs	1	1	1	1	1
No. of mobile elements
IS elements		20	23 (34 dega)	82 (60 deg)	2
Transposons		5	4	2
Transposases	(1 deg)	33 (10 deg)	5 (3 deg)	92	9
Genomic islands	1	3	2	5	1
Staphylococcal cassette chromosomes		1	1	1	2
Prophages	1	1	1	2	1
Plasmids		1	1		2

^adeg, degenerated.