Fig. 7.

(a) Plasmid map showing the 121 predicted CDSs encoded by pMAB02. The type VII secretion system (T7SS) is shown in red, genes associated with the stable inheritance of pMAB02 are shown in blue, whilst genes that are associated with the mobility of pMAB02 are shown in green. (b) A comparison of the gene order of the T7SS found on pMAB02 with the esxP1 T7SS found on Mycobacterium marinum plasmid pRAW and the T7SS that have been described on other M. abscessus plasmids plsm2 (M. a. bolletii 50 594) and pMBOL1 (M. a. bolletii 5625) and the ESX-5 T7SS found on the chromosome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. *The assembly of pMBOL is not available and therefore the gene order shown here was based upon that reported by Dumas et al. [33].