FIG. 3.

(A) Alignment of the putative phy gene promoter region of E. ramulus (nucleotides 645 to 665; GenBank accession number AF548616) with the bai operon promoter regions of Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 and Clostridium sp. strain TO-931 (32). Arrows denote transcription start sites, and conserved regions are shaded in grey. The underlined sequences represent the putative −10 regions. (B) Putative transcriptional terminator sequence downstream of the E. ramulus phy gene (nucleotides 1615 to 1669; GenBank accession number AF548616). The underlined bases represent the palindromic sequences probably forming a stem-loop structure followed by a poly(U) sequence.