TABLE 2 .

The 13 Mycobacterium species included in the analyses

Mycobacterium species	KEGG alias	Categorization based on virulence	NCBI RefSeq accession no.	No. of proteins
Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv	MYCTU	True pathogen	NC_000962	4,003
Mycobacterium bovis subsp. bovis AF2122/97	MYCBO	True pathogen	NC_002945	3,918
Mycobacterium leprae TN	MYCLE	True pathogen	NC_002677	1,605
Mycobacterium ulcerans Agy99	MYCUA	True pathogen	NC_005916, NC_008611	4,241
Mycobacterium marinum M	MYCMM	True pathogen	NC_010604, NC_010612	5,452
Mycobacterium avium 104	MYCA1	Opportunistic pathogen	NC_008595	5,120
Mycobacterium intracellulare ATCC 13950	MIA	Opportunistic pathogen	NC_016946	5,144
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis K-10	MYCPA	Opportunistic pathogen	NC_002944	4,350
Mycobacterium abscessus ATCC 19977	MYCAB	Opportunistic pathogen	NC_010394, NC_010397	4,941
Mycobacterium indicus pranii MTCC 9506	MIP	Nonpathogen	NC_018612	5,254
Mycobacterium smegmatis MC2 155	MYCS2	Nonpathogen	NC_008596	6,717
Mycobacterium gilvum PYR-GCK	MYCGI	Nonpathogen	NC_009338, NC_009339, NC_009340, NC_009341	5,579
Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1	MYCVP	Nonpathogen	NC_008726	5,979