TABLE 5.
Comparison of bacterial multicopper proteinsa
| Protein | Alignment score with
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| ECH | AAH | PSS | BCotA | PCR | XCR | |
| PpoA | 79.6 | 55.8 | 49.6 | 44.9 | 34 | 32.8 |
| ECH | 179 | 109 | 122 | 79.2 | 55.4 | |
| AAH | 116 | 161 | 52.7 | 42.2 | ||
| PSS | 267 | 36 | 33.2 | |||
| BCotA | 41.8 | 46.9 | ||||
| PCR | 774 | |||||
a
Alignment scores obtained for the different prokaryotic blue multicopper proteins using the program BLAST 2 Sequences (38). PCR, copper resistance factor from P. syringae; XCR, copper resistance, X. campestris; ECH, hypothetical protein, E. coli; PSS, phenoxazinone synthase, S. antibioticus; AAH, hypothetical protein, A. aoelicus; BCotA, sporulation protein, B. subtilis; PpoA, multipotent PPO, M. mediterranea.