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. 2012 Jul;158(Pt 7):1931–1932. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.X00004-0

Multiple leptospiral sphingomyelinases (or are there?)

Suneel A Narayanavari, Manjula Sritharan, David A Haake, James Matsunaga
PMCID: PMC3542143

Table 1 of this paper contained errors in the third column, titled ‘Species/serovar’. The genus name for each organism in this column was given as ‘List’; this was incorrect. The correct genus name for each organism in Table 1 is Leptospira (‘Lept.’). The correct names are given in the new version of Table 1, below.

Table 1. N-terminal repeats.

Protein Locus tag Species/serovar Signal peptide* No. of repeats Repetitive sequences†
Sph1 LA1027 Lept. interrogans serovar Lai Yes (39–40) 2 60–70 (NVNEKIEDSTN)
76–86 (NVNEEDENSIN)
LIC12632 Lept. interrogans serovar Copenhageni Yes (38–39) 2 59–69 (NVNEKIEDSTN)
75–85 (NVNEEDENSIN)
LIP0979 Lept. interrogans serovar Pomona Yes (38–39) 2 59–69 (NVNEKIEDSTN)
75–85 (NVNEEDENSTN)
LiL49501006 Lept. interrogans serovar Manilae No 2 59–69 (NVNEENENVTN)
75–85 (NVNEKDENATN)
Sph2 LA1029 Lept. interrogans serovar Lai No 3 49–67 (NQVNSVSINNDPANPNPVN)
74–92 (NQVNAVPENDDPANLNPVN)
99–117 (NQVNAAPENGSPADPNPAN)
LIC12631 Lept. interrogans serovar Copenhageni No 3 49–67 (NQVNSVSINNDPANPNPVN)
74–92 (NQVNAVPENDNPANLNPVN)
99–117 (NQVNAAPENGSSADPNPAN)
LIP0980 Lept. interrogans serovar Pomona No 4 55–77 (SINNDPANPNPVNPASANNNQVN)
80–102 (PENDNPANLNPVNPASANSNQVN)
105–127 (PENDNPANLNPVNPASANSNQVN)
130–152 (PENGSPTDPNPANLASANNNQVN)
LiL49501008 Lept. interrogans serovar Manilae No 3 27–48 (DPTNPNPVNPASATSNQVNAVP)
52–73 (DPANPNPVNPASANNNQVNAVP)
77–98 (NPADPNPANSASANNNQVNAVP)
Sph3 LA4004 Lept. interrogans serovar Lai Yes (38–39)
LIC13198 Lept. interrogans serovar Copenhageni Yes (38–39)
LIP0774 Lept. interrogans serovar Pomona No
Li L49503485 Lept. interrogans serovar Manilae No
SphH LA3540 Lept. interrogans serovar Lai No
LIC10657 Lept. interrogans serovar Copenhageni No
LIP2950 Lept. interrogans serovar Pomona Yes (44–45)
LiL49503095 Lept. interrogans serovar Manilae No
SphB LBJ 0527 Lept. borpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis strain JB197 Yes (38–39) 6 71–90 (GYDPISSGPASPTSpAGPGP)
92–110 (DLDPSNPDTANSSS–TNSGS)
112–130 (NSSSTSSGSANSSS–TSSGS)
142–160 (NSSSTSSGSANSSS–TSSGS)
162–180 (NSSSTSSGSANSSS–TSSGS)
182–199 (NSSSTSSGSANSSS––KAPP)
LBL 2552 Lept. borpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis strain L550 Yes (38–39) 7 79–109 (PASPTSPAgpgpGDLDPSNPDTANSSSTSSG)
110–139 (SANPDTAN–sssTSSGSANPDTANSSSTSSG)
140–169 (SANPDTAN–sssTSSGSANPDTANSSSTNSG)
170–184 (SANPDTAN––––––––––––––––SSSTSSG)
185–214 (-ANPDTAN–sssTNSGSANPDTANSSSTSSG)
215–244 (SANPDTA–-sssTNSGSANPDTANSSSTSSG)
245–274 (SANPDTA––sssTNSGSANPDTANSSSTSSG)
SphA LBJ 0291 Lept. borpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis strain JB197 Yes (26–27)
LBL 2785 Lept. borpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis strain L550 Yes (26–27)
*

The number in parentheses represents the amino acids flanking the putative signal peptidase cleavage site.

The number represents the amino acid position in the protein sequence. Lower case characters are used for amino acid residues that are not aligned. Gaps are represented by –.

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