TABLE 2.
Potential virulence factors in the genome of Clostridium gasigenes CGAS001*.
| VF class | Virulence factors | Related genes |
| Adherence | Fibronectin-binding protein | Fbp |
| GroEL | groEL | |
| LPS O-antigen (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) | wbpI | |
| Regulation | CheA/CheY (Listeria) | cheY |
| LisR/LisK (Listeria) | lisR | |
| VirR/VirS (Listeria) | virR | |
| Toxin | Alpha-clostripain | cloSI |
| Hemolysin | Undetermined | |
| Undetermined | ||
| Copper uptake | Copper exporter (Mycobacterium) | ctpV |
| Glycosylation system | O-linked flagellar glycosylation (Campylobacter) | neuB2 |
| Immune evasion | Capsule (Staphylococcus) | capF |
| capG | ||
| 4I | ||
| Polysaccharide capsule (Bacillus) | galE | |
| gtaB | ||
| Intracellular survival | Sugar-uptake system (Listeria) | hpt |
| Iron uptake | Periplasmic binding protein-dependent ABC transport systems (Vibrio) | vctC |
| Lipid and fatty acid metabolism | Pantothenate synthesis (Mycobacterium) | panD |
| Magnesium uptake | Mg2+ transport (Salmonella) | mgtB |
| Motility | Flagella (Helicobacter) | fliP |
| Others | O-antigen (Yersinia) | ddhA |
| Phagosome arresting | Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Mycobacterium) | ndk |
| Secretion system | Type III secretion system (Chlamydia) | cdsN |
| Serum resistance and immune evasion | LPS (Francisella) | wbtE |
| Stress adaptation | Catalase-peroxidase (Mycobacterium) | katG |
*Identified in Virulence Finder Database (VFDB) 2019 web server.