Table 1.

Pairwise nucleotide alignment results of the selected L-asparaginases from the enzymes from E. coli and E. chrysanthemi

Pairwise sequence alignment (%)	E. coli type I	E. coli type II	E. chrysanthemi
CAspI	S: 36.5 I: 21.9	S: 47.0 I: 31.7	S: 49.2 I: 34.3
CAspII	S: 32.5 I: 19.7	S: 46.5 I: 31.1	S: 47.4 I: 34.0
CAspIII	S: 35.6 I: 22.5	S: 48.3 I: 32.6	S: 49.9 I: 32.3
E. chrysanthemi	S: 35.6 I: 19.0	S: 62.8 I: 47.3
E. coli type II	S: 36.6 I: 23.6

See Tables S3 and S4 for more detailed BLAST analyses of all 87 candidate genes. Also, see Table S5 for statistics of selected L-asparaginase coding genes.