Table 3.

BER gene orthologs identified in C. jejuni NCTC 11168 genome in comparison with those in E. coli K-12.

E. coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655		C. jejuni subsp. jejuni NCTC 11168		aSimilarities (%)
Gene	Locus tag	Annotation	Locus tag	Identities	Positivities
ung	b2580	Uracil-DNA-glycosylase	cj0086c	47	66
nth	b1633	Endonuclease III	cj0595c	40	57
nth	b1633	Endonuclease III	cj1083c	30	42
mutY	B2961	Adenine DNA glycosylase	cj1620c	35	53

^aThe similarities (at amino acid level) were determined by BLAST programs after alignment.