FIG. 2.

The reversed nucleotide sequence of the OPL-05–PL1 fragment from L. rhamnosus Lc 1/3 (613 bp). The strain-specific primer regions are shown in boldface type. A typical Lactobacillus RBS sequence (23) is double underlined, and a putative −10 region is underlined. The protein encoded by the sequence is marked beneath the nucleotide sequence in the standard one-letter amino acid code. Aligned with the sequence is an example of a homologous amino acid sequence from L. lactis found in the databases (P35881 [8]). Identical amino acids are presented in boxed capital letters, and functionally similar amino acids are presented in capital letters.