TABLE 1.
Conservation of M. bovis antigens in Mycobacterium species
| Organism | % Amino acid identity by BLAST analysis (expected value)
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| MPB83 (Mb2898) | ESAT6 (Mb3905) | CFP10 (Mb3904) | Acr1 (Mb3423) | MPB64 (Mb2002c) | PPE68 (Mb3903) | |
| M. tuberculosis | 100 (4e−121) | 100 (2e−46) | 100 (3e−49) | 100 (0.0) | 100 (5e−131) | 100 (0.0) |
| M. kansasii | 76 (2e−83) | 97 (2e−45) | 95 (2e−40) | NDa | ND | ND |
| M. avium | ND | ND | ND | 80 (0.0) | 54 (4e−63) | 50 (8e−27) |
| M. smegmatis | 40 (1e−22) | 71 (7e−30) | 61 (5e−19) | 72 (0.0) | 43 (2e−47) | 62 (8e−60) |
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ND, no homolog with the expected value of <1e−10 was detected.