Fig. 2.

Schematic illustration of the disrupted UU172 element of U. parvum serovar 3 strain ATCC 700970 showing the ORFs UU172, UU171 and UU144 and the intergenic region (ir) between UU172 and UU171. Triangles and diamonds represent inverted repeat regions, where the diamond indicates a palindromic sequence; corresponding DNA and encoding amino acid sequences, as they appear in U. parvum and U. urealyticum, are shown above. ^P/U: nucleotides found in U. parvum and U. urealyticum serovars 2, 4 and 12. ^U: nucleotides in U. urealyticum strains except serovars 2, 4 and 12. Primers (designated as numbers) used for generating recombinant proteins and monospecific Pabs used for their detection are indicated (see Table S3).