Figure 2.

Comparison of the gal locus of B. breve UCC2003 with corresponding putative galacto‐oligosaccharides/galactan utilization loci from other bifidobacteria. Each solid arrow indicates an open reading frame. The lengths of the arrows are proportional to the length of the predicted open reading frame and the gene locus name, which is indicative of its putative function, is indicated within the arrow. Orthologs are marked with the same colour while the amino acid identity of each predicted protein is indicated as a percentage relative to its equivalent protein encoded by B. breve UCC2003. The bent arrows indicate the galc and galA promoters; the lollipop sign designates putative rho‐independent terminator region.