TABLE 3.

Predicted gene products and the homology exhibited by their potential protein products to amino acid sequences in the database^a

Predicted gene	Coding position		Product size		Predicted pI	Homology		Description and function of closest relativeb
	Start	Stop	aac	kDa		BLAST score	aa identityd
purF	<1	940	>312	>34.6	4.67	e-124	73/300	Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase precursor of L. lactis (EC 2.4.2.14) [U64311]
purM	995	2017	340	36.4	4.54	e-128	69/339	Phosphoribosylformylglycineamide cycloligase of L. lactis subsp. cremoris (EC 6.3.3.1) [AF016634]
purN	2014	2565	183	20.5	4.88	8e-58	71/150	Phosphoribosylglycineamide formyltransferase homolog of S. pyogenes (EC 22.1.2.2) [U70775]
purH	2575	4122	515	56.6	4.83	e-169	58/513	Phosphoribosylamidoimidazole carboxyamide formyltransferase of B. subtilis (EC 6.3.2.6) [J02732]
ssuMA	4187	5017	276	31.8	4.93	e-114	71/275	M.LlaDCHI A of L. lactis [U16027]
						e-110	70/274	M.DpnII 1 of S. pneumoniae [M14339]
ssuMB	5007	5822	271	31.2	9.50	e-145	90/266	M.DpnA of S. pneumoniae [M14339]
						e-139	86/263	M.LlaDCHI B of L. lactis [U16027]
ssuRA	5800	6726	308	36.0	5.20	3e-78	49/299	R.DpnII of S. pneumoniae [M14339]
ssuRB	6726	7631	301	34.4	5.17	e-126	72/300	R.LlaDCHI of L. lactis [U16027]
purD	7752	9014	420	45.3	4.48	e-125	54/419	Phosphoribosylamineglycine ligase of L. lactis (EC 6.3.4.13) [AJ000883]
purE	9040	9528	162	16.8	6.36	4e-41	61/139	Phosphoribosylamidoimidazole carboxylase catalytic subunit of B. subtilis (EC 4.1.1.21) [J02732]

^aProteins relating to purine biosynthesis have been named according to their closest relative, probable function, and E. coli gene designations (60). Coding region positions are numbered with respect to the entire 9,618-bp sequence determined (AB045609) and from the first base of the start codon to the last base of the stop codon. The Genetyx-Mac program (Software Developing Company) was used to make predictions of coding regions, molecular masses, and isoelectric points. 

^bNumbers in blackets are accession numbers in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank database. 

^caa, amino acids. 

^dPercent identity/number of amino acids evaluated.