Table 2.
Mycobacterial species with MIRU-VNTR repeats
| Mycobacterium species | Intergenic region rnc-Mtb-fpg1 (bp) |
|---|---|
| M. tuberculosis H37Rv* | 358 |
| M. tuberculosis CDC1551* | 358 |
| M. tuberculosis 210† | 358 |
| M. tuberculosis C† | 358 |
| M. tuberculosis F11* | 358 |
| M. bovis AF2122/97* | 303 |
| M. microti OV254† | 279 |
| M. leprae TN* | 54 |
| M. a. paratuberculosis K10* | 20 |
| M. avium 104* | 20 |
| M. smegmatis mc2 155* | 6 |
| M. sp. JLS* | 6 |
| M. sp. KMS* | 6 |
| M. sp. MCS* | 6 |
| M. vanbaalenii PYR-1* | 6 |
| M. flavescens PYR-GCK†‡ | 6 |
| M. marinum (M strain)* | 3 |
| M. ulcerans Agy99* | 1 |
*
Completely sequenced genome.
†
Incompletely sequenced genome.
‡
Sequence homology to Mycobacterium sp. JLS, Mycobacterium sp. KMS and Mycobacterium sp. MCS, as well as Mycobacterium vanbaalenii indicate no more than 6 bp from the stop codon of rnc to the start codon of fpg.
Species belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (above the line) exhibit long intergenic regions between rnc and Mtb-fpg1 genes, contrasting those in non-M. tuberculosis complex species (below the line). The length of the intergenic region is a marker for the presence of repeats.