TABLE 4.
Number of genes related to Virulence, Disease and Defense features of the three new bacterial species identified in this study. The genome analysis and the annotation was performed using the RAST genome annotation software.
| Virulence, disease and defense | Arthrobacter sp. CMR16 | Pseudomonas sp. CrR25 | Pseudomonas sp. CMR27 | Pseudomonas sp. CMR25 |
| Resistance to antibiotics and toxic compounds | 19 | 56 | 42 | 45 |
| Mercury resistance operon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Copper homeostasis | 6 | 25 | 18 | 18 |
| Cobalt-zinc-cadmium resistance | 4 | 12 | 17 | 16 |
| Resistance to fluoroquinolones | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Copper homeostasis: copper tolerance | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Beta-lactamase | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Mercuric reductase | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Multidrug Resistance Efflux Pumps | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Resistance to chromium compounds | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Invasion and intracellular resistance | 19 | 21 | 14 | 17 |
| Mycobacterium virulence operon involved in protein synthesis (SSU ribosomal proteins) | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 |
| Mycobacterium virulence operon involved in DNA transcription | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Mycobacterium virulence operon possibly involved in quinolinate biosynthesis | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Listeria surface proteins: Internalin-like proteins | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mycobacterium virulence operon involved in protein synthesis (LSU ribosomal proteins) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Bacteriocins, ribosomally synthesized antibacterial peptides | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Tolerance to colicin E2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Membrane Transport | 14 | 77 | 86 | 83 |
| Protein secretion system, Type II (Widespread colonization island) | 11 | 14 | 10 | 10 |
| Protein secretion system, Type II (General Secretion Pathway) | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Protein secretion system, Type V (Two partner secretion pathway–TPS) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Protein secretion system, Type I | 0 | 0 | 29 | 22 |
| Protein secretion system, Type III | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Protein secretion system, Type VI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Protein and nucleoprotein secretion system, Type IV (Type IV pilus) | 0 | 28 | 22 | 20 |
| Protein and nucleoprotein secretion system, Type IV (Conjugative transfer) | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Protein secretion system, Type VII (Chaperone/Usher pathway, CU) | 0 | 0 | 13 | 12 |
| Twin-arginine translocation system | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| Protein secretion system, Type VIII (Extracellular nucleation/precipitation pathway, ENP) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 |