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. 2022 Nov 14;13(6):e02688-22. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02688-22

TABLE 2.

Metabolic pathways common to clinical and reference strains

Pathway and subsystem No. of subsystems (no. of genes) in:
B-4156 Mbale Mbale2 Mbale3
Metabolism 91 (745) 93 (767) 92 (742) 94 (768)
 Cofactors, vitamins, and prosthetic groups 21 (228) 22 (246) 20 (231) 21 (227)
 Amino acids and derivatives 29 (227) 29 (225) 29 (220) 29 (241)
 Fatty acids, lipids, and isoprenoids  11 (88) 11 (91) 11 (88) 11 (92)
 Carbohydrates 9 (64) 8 (65) 9 (60) 9 (69)
 Nucleosides and nucleotides 8 (64) 9 (62) 8 (62) 4 (27)
 Iron acquisition and metabolism 4 (25) 4 (25) 4 (28) 4 (17)
 Phosphate metabolism 1 (20) 2 (21) 2 (12) 2 (15)
 Metabolite damage and mitigation 4 (17) 4 (17) 4 (25) 2 (7)
 Secondary metabolism 2 (7) 2 (10) 2 (10) 2 (5)
 Nitrogen metabolism 1 (4) 1 (4) 2 (5) 2 (5)
 Sulfur metabolism 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1)
Protein processing 44 (249) 43 (255) 42 (237) 41 (225)
 Protein synthesis 31 (201) 31 (203) 30 (188) 29 (177)
 Protein fate 13 (48) 12 (52) 12 (49) 12 (48)
Energy 28 (205) 29 (218) 27 (209) 29 (235)
 Energy and precursor metabolite generation  18 (124) 20 (141) 18 (134) 20 (159)
 Respiration 10 (81) 9 (77) 9 (75) 9 (76)
Cellular processes 27 (174) 27 (183) 27 (175) 26 (175)
 Cell cycle, cell division, and death 11 (82) 11 (82) 13 (82) 11 (83)
 Prokaryotic cell differentiation 13 (77) 13 (83)  11 (78) 12 (77)
 Mobility and chemotaxis 1 (9) 1 (9) 1 (9)  1 (9)
 Clustering-based subsystems  1 (5) 1 (8) 1 (5) 1 (5)
 Microbial communities 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1)
Stress response, defense, virulence 36 (120) 17 (119) 32 (121) 31 (124)
 Resistance to antibiotics and toxic compounds 19 (66) 17 (61) 15 (65) 15 (124)
 Stress response: heat/cold 2 (17) 2 (22) 2 (18) 2 (17)
 Stress response: osmotic stress 4 (13) 7 (13) 4 (13) 7 (15)
 Stress response: electrophile toxicity 1 (4) 1 (4) 1 (4) 1 (4)
 Host-pathogen interactions 11 (72) 1 (1) 1 (1) 2 (6)
DNA processing 18 (89) 19 (117) 18 (90) 19 (116)
 DNA repair 12 (59) 13 (96) 12 (60) 13 (84)
 DNA uptake, competence 2 (16) 2 (28) 2 (15) 2 (16)
 DNA recombination 2 (5) 1 (4) 2 (6) 2 (5)
 DNA replication 1 (4) 1 (2) 1 (4) 1 (5)
Membrane transport 11 (72) 11 (68) 7 (63) 7 (68)
 ABC transporters 1 (42)  1 (41) 1 (42) 1 (41)
 Cation transporters  4 (22) 3 (17) 3 (17) 3 (21)
 Multidrug efflux systems  2 (3) 2 (3) 2 (3) 2 (4)
 Protein secretion systems, type VII  3 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Protein secretion systems, type II 1 (1) 1 (2) 1 (1) 1 (2)
 Uniporter, Symporter, Antiporter 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (0) 0 (0)
RNA processing 12 (52) 12 (54) 12 (51) 2 (16)
Cell envelope 3 (15) 3 (15) 3 (14) 1 (6)
Regulation and cell signaling 3 (12) 3 (12) 3 (14) 3 (14)