TABLE 3.

Comparative analysis of the amino acid sequence variability within the prevalent unique agr RFLP types and agr groups^a

^aThe control sequences obtained from GenBank were as follows: agr group 1, SAAGRAB sequence, accession no. X52543; agr group 2, SA502a, accession no. AF001782; agr group 3, RN8462, accession no. AF001783. The sequences of the AgrD signal peptides are boxed. The sequences were aligned by MegAlign software (DNAStar). The signal peptide sequence of S. epidermidis Tü 3298 was derived from the study of Otto et al. (12). Sequence differences are underlined. 

^bControl sequence. 

^cS. epidermidis signal peptide sequence.