A comparison of selected MCP operons. Representative operons from S. enterica LT2 (pdu, eut), E. coli 536 (cut), and E. coli CFT073 (grp) are shown using one-letter abbreviations for genes and protein products. Gene sizes and spacing are roughly to scale. Note that in the cut operon, shell proteins are named with a different acronym, CmcA to -E to avoid redundancy with prior work.