TABLE 5.

Genome characteristics of the three sequenced Herpetosiphon strains, including the classes of metabolites predicted to be made by each organism^a

Characteristic	H. llansteffanense CA052B	H. aurantiacus DSM 785	H. geysericola DSM 7119
Size (Mbp)	6.14	6.79	6.24
No. of contigs	170	1 (+2 plasmids)	46
% GC content	50.8	50.9	50.7
No. of coding sequences
Total	5,248	5,577	4,688
t1PKS-NRPS	2	3	2
Thiopeptide	1	1	1
Terpene	2	2	2
Bacteriocin	2	1	2
NRPS	2	4	2
t3PKS	1	1	1
t1PKS		1
Lantipeptide-t1PKS-NRPS		1

^aData for H. aurantiacus DSM 785 and H. geysericola DSM 7119 are from references 4 and 54, respectively. t1 and t3 refer to type 1 and type 3, respectively.