(a) Purification of recombinant Y. pestis CDP-ME kinase by Nickel-affinity chromatography. Comassie blue-stained SDS-PAGE showing cell lysate from E. coli bacterial cells over-expressing Y. pestis CDP-ME kinase.
(b) Amino acid sequence alignment of CDP-ME kinases from E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, and Y. pestis. Residues highlighted in red are identical residues across all four species and residues highlighted in blue are conserved residues.