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. 2018 Mar 20;9(2):e02138-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02138-17

TABLE 2 .

Hypervariable BamA L6 sequences in P. aeruginosa isolates and strains used in the test panel

Hypervariable loop L6
amino acid sequencea
Relative frequency (%)
of sequence among:
Test panel strains
susceptible to:
P. aeruginosa
isolates encoding:
P. aeruginosa isolates Test panel PyoL1 PyoL2 PyoL1 PyoL2
PRSTPSRAYKDGKIIPGPDER
GRYTDPDQDPEAFGG
37.3 33.75 0/27 0/27 3/12 11/18
PRSTPSVARNPDGTPMKNQG
PDSKGRYTDPDQDPEAFGG
18.2 26.25 21/21 0/21 0/12 7/18
PRSTPSIARDANGKQIPGPDS
QGRYTDPDQDPEAFGG
2.3 1.25 0/1 1/1 0/12 0/18
PRSTPSVARDG(N/K)GNQIVG
PDSKGRYTDPDQDPEAFGG
20.8 15.0 0/12 11/12 9/12 0/18
PRSTPSRGEAEGGRPGTVRDP
DQDPEAFGG
17.2 18.75 0/15 0/15 0/12 0/18
Other 4.2 5.0 0/4 0/4 0/12 0/18
a

Residues shown in boldface italics indicate the hypervariable sequence; nonpolymorphic (conserved) residues that are part of L6 are shown in lightface.