TABLE 4.
Indels unique to Iowa variantsa
| Coordinate | Gene | Indel size (bp) |
Type | Product | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | Small-plaque variant | Large-plaque variant | Morgan | ||||
| 20389 | RrIowa_0029 | 11 | Insertion | Sca1 | |||
| 376310 | RrIowa_0450 | 11 | Insertion | Hypothetical protein | |||
| 1128779 | RrIowa_1432 | 3 | Deletion | Hypothetical protein | |||
| 1180402 | RrIowa_1493 | 891 | Insertion | Outer membrane protein A | |||
| 1180004 | RrIowa_1493 | 11 | Deletion | Outer membrane protein A | |||
| 1181871 | RrIowa_1494 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Insertion | Outer membrane protein A | |
a
Insertions and deletions which distinguish the R. rickettsii Iowa strain from the Iowa strain variants and from the Morgan strain. Coordinates are from the reference Iowa strain (CP000766.3).