TABLE 2.

Presence of virulence factors in E. faecium NRRL B-2354

Genea	Function	Length of reference gene (bp)	% Coverage	Nucleotide identity (%)	Reference
acm	Adhesion to collagen and other extracellular proteins	2,166	100	99	64
cyl	Cytolysin, hemolysis	7,500	NDb	ND	60
ebpR	Regulatory gene for enterococcus biofilm and pilus (ebp) operon	1,392	ND	ND	65
ebpA	Pilin subunit	3,390	80	99	65
ebpB	Pilin subunit	1,422	100	99	65
ebpC	Pilin subunit	1,878	100	99	65
efaAfm	Adhesion protein, plays role in endocarditis	951	100	100	68
esp	Enterococcal surface protein	2,315	ND	ND	61
gelE	Gelatinase	6,088	ND	ND	58
hyl	Hyaluronidase	1,662	ND	ND	59
IS16	Mobile insertion sequence	1,188	ND	ND	57
pilA	Major pilin subunit	1,977	100	99	67
pilE	Secreted surface protein	756	100	100	67
pilF	Minor pilin subunit	2,091	100	99	67
sagA	Adhesion protein	1,575	100	100	70
scm	Surface protein, adhesion to extracellular proteins	1,983	100	100	62

^aThe E. faecium NRRL B-2354 genome was compared to the E. faecium TX16 (DO) genome, except for the following: E. faecium Aus0004 (esp), E. faecalis V583 (cyl, gelE), E. faecium U37 (IS16), and E. faecium E1165 (pilA, pilE, pilF).

^bND, not detected.