Fig. 3.

Synteny around the M. lepromatosis hemN locus and comparison with M. leprae and M. tuberculosis. Links between the genomes are BLAST hits; hemN and sirA are present in M. lepromatosis and M. tuberculosis (gray links) but have been deleted in M. leprae. The mbt cluster, present in M. tuberculosis, is deleted in M. leprae and M. lepromatosis. Scale is in kilobases. Note the genomic rearrangement between M. lepromatosis (first 10 kb of the contig) and M. leprae. Additionally, the sequence corresponding to the M. leprae genome between 780 and 795 kb is almost entirely deleted in M. lepromatosis.