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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2010 Dec 9;364(1):33–42. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1012928

Table 1.

Gene Content of Hypervariable Elements in H1, H2, M4, and C6.*

Isolate Has
CTX
Missing ORFs in
VSP-II region
Missing ORFs in
Superintegron
Missing ORFs in
SXT_MJ-1236
Missing ORFs in
SXT_CIRS101
Sample
 H1 and H2 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
 M4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
 N5 Yes No No No hit No hit
 C6 Yes Yes No No hit No hit
Reference genomes
 CIRS101 Yes Yes Yes ND No
 N16961 Yes No No No SXT No SXT
 B33 Yes No Yes No No
 MJ-1236 Yes No Yes No§ No§
*

ND denotes not determined, and ORF open reading frame.

The missing regions are different in each of these.

No hit indicates that no SXT ORF was observed.

§

Reference sequence comprises subsequences derived from MJ-1236.