Figure 4.

Identification of the proteins involved in sporulation processes for each analyzed species. As reference the reported proteins in C. botulinum Ba4 657 uid59173 were used as comparisons in the CD-HIT suite, taking the following parameters into account: % identity > 40 and Kmer = 2. * Stage: sporulation pathway step based on the reported information. ** Cbot: C. botulinum Ba4 657 uid59173; Numbers inside each well indicate the reference genome length and the numbers in parenthesis represent the number of copies found. Parenthetical numbers indicate the number of times proteins were identified more than once in the multifasta files that were used for each analysis. † Black boxes represent the proteins reported (in the reference genome), that are missing in all the evaluated isolates. Because no sporulation proteins were identified in 72_43FAA (C. tertium) and LH058 (C. paraputrificum) they were excluded from the analyses. The proteins are listed according to their timing of action in the sporulation pathways, in agreement with previous reports [78,98].