Table 1.
Distribution of the families of transporter systems in the genomes of four distinct Rhodococcus species (Transporter classification database, Saier et al., 2006; TransportDB, Ren et al., 2007).
| Organism | Genome size (Mb) | Number of transporters /Mb genome | Transporter type (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATP-dependent | Ion channels | PTS | Secondary transporters | Unclassified | |||
| R. equi 103S | 5.043 | 0.09 | 54.9 | 3.4 | n.i. | 38.5 | 3.2 |
| R. erythropolis PR4 | 6.896 | 0.10 | 55.7 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 39.4 | 1.7 |
| R. opacus B4 | 8.835 | 0.09 | 47.1 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 48.1 | 1.9 |
| R. jostii RHA1 | 9.703 | 0.08 | 46.5 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 48.6 | 2.1 |
ATP, adenosine triphosphate; PTS, phosphotransferase systems n.i., not identified.