TABLE 2.
Breakage points of recombination events in gyrA alleles shared by N. meningitidis and commensal Neisseria species
| gyrA allele | No. of isolates |
Recombinant fragment |
Genomes (PubMLST ID) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakage point positiona
|
Length (bp) | No. of different nucleotides between recombinant and: |
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| N. meningitidis | N. lactamica | N. subflava | Upstream | Downstream | Its donor sequences | The three reference genomesb | |||
| gyrA92 | 2 | 10 | 0 | −5040 | 2459 | 7,499 | 0 | ≥517 | CR24 (42731), Nei343 (89165) |
| gyrA97 | 2 | 4 | 0 | −1612 | 1932 | 3,544 | 0 | ≥251 | Nei110 (84474), Nm043 (52302) |
| gyrA98 | 2 | 26 | 0 | −21 | +64 | 2,836 | 1 | ≥201 | Nm461 (52400), Nei139 (84477) |
| gyrA114 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 108 | 942 | 835 | 0 | ≥63 | Nm013 (52298), Nei082 (89163) |
| gyrA116 | 7 | 9 | 0 | −106 | 1499 | 1,605 | 0 | ≥101 | Nm376 (52365), Nei153 (89164) |
| gyrA151 | 1 | 8 | 0 | No sequence | 1311 | ≥1,311 | 0 | ≥74 | M16207 (19373), Nei042 (84206) |
| gyrA230 | 3 | 22 | 0 | −1513 | 851 | 2,364 | 0 | ≥87 | Nm396 (52374), Nei018 (84198) |
| gyrA171 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 656 | 634 | 0 | ≥130 | 34173 (57857), Nei437 (84263) |
a
Positions are given according to the first nucleotide of gyrA of N. meningitidis strain 053442.
b
The reference genomes were those of isolates 053442, MC58, and Z2491.