TABLE 2.

Organisms with orthologues of SlcD, and orthologues of relevant enzymes of the bifurcated sulfolactate degradative pathway^c

Organism	Organism tag	Locus tag encoding indicated enzyme:
		SlcD	ComE	ComD	Xsc	CuyA
Roseovarius nubinhibens ISM	ISM_	13310	13330	13335	10690	09626
Phaeobacter gallaeciensis BS107	RGBS107_	10911	10916	10921	03088	05569a
Roseobacter denitrificans OCh 114	RD1_	3814	3813	3812	0826	0819
Roseobacter litoralis Och 149	RLO149_	14678	14683	14688	15453	15243
Roseobacter sp. strain SK 209-2-6	RSK20926_	07142	07147	07152	10419	14094
Rhodobacterales bacterium HTCC2083	RB2083_	2743	2808	708	3832	3184
Rhodobacterales bacterium Y41	RBY41_	4170	4207	4138	3832	1128
Roseovarius sp. strain 217	ROS217_	11241	None	None	11936	09350
Roseovarius sp. strain TM1035	RTM1035_	17047	None	None	16562	19346
Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3	SPO	0598	None	None	3561	A0158
Jannaschia sp. strain CCS1	Jann_	1403	1402	1401	2846	None
Octadecabacter antarcticus 238	OA238_	2138	—b	1847	2599	None
Octadecabacter antarcticus 307	OA307_	2251	—b	3307	4001	None
Phaeobacter gallaeciensis 2.10	RG210_	02412	02407	02402	10327	None
Rhodobacterales bacterium HTCC2150	RB2150_	17119	17114	17109	15441	None
Rhodobacterales bacterium KLH11	RKHL11_	3493	3454	3575	2875	None
Roseobacter sp. strain CCS2	RCCS2_	12604	12609	12614	04724	None
Roseobacter sp. strain MED193	MED193_	17034	17039	17044	12208	None

^aA paralogous hypothetical protein (19978) is also present.

^b—, comE is present but not annotated.

^cContiguous clusters are shown in bold type. Abbreviations of enzyme names are given in the text.