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. 2013 Jun;79(12):3724–3733. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00518-13

Table 2.

Size and number of encoded selfish genetic elements and biodegradative enzymes in the 7 complete sphingomonad genomes

Organism Size (kb) No. of:
Putative prophage Phage-like proteins (% of total proteins) Transposons Monooxygenases Dioxygenases CAZymes
Novosphingobium aromaticivorans DSM 12444
    Chromosome 3,561.6 5 309 (9.3) 16 13 19 58
    Plasmid pNL1 184.5 1 1 1 13 1
    Plasmid pNL2 487.3 2 3 8
Novosphingobium sp. strain PP1Y
    Chromosome 3,911.5 3 113 (3.3) 24 10 33 36
    Plasmid Lpl 192.1 1 5 2
    Plasmid Spl 48.7 1 1
    Plasmid Mpl 1,161.6 17 5 6 41
Sphingobium chlorophenolicum L-1
    Chromosome 1 3,080.8 1 107 (3.8) 15 9 4 30
    Chromosome 2 1,368.7 1 74 (6.7) 8 6 15 17
    Plasmid pSPHCH01 123.7 2 1
Sphingobium japonicum UT26S
    Chromosome 1 3,514.8 2 95 (2.7) 37 9 6 28
    Chromosome 2 681.9 7 2 2 22
    Plasmid pUT1 31.8 5
    Plasmid pUT2 5.4
    Plasmid pPCHQ1 191.0 2 6 2 2
Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6
    Chromosome 4,199.3 1 88 (2.3) 29 16 23 25
    Plasmid pSLPG 148.8 6 1
Sphingomonas wittichii RW1
    Chromosome 5,382.26 2 183 (3.8) 36 42 38 33
    Plasmid pSWIT01 310.2 2 9 2 1
    Plasmid pSWIT02 222.8 1 31 1 6 2
Sphingopyxis alaskensis RB2256
    Chromosome 3,345.2 1 62 (2.0) 36 9 7 33
    F plasmid 28.5