TABLE 3.

Location of phaQ with respect to the endogenous PHA polymerase-encoding gene phaC

Microorganism	Location ofa:		% Overlapb
	phaC	phaQ
A. caviae	2640–4478	2657–4303	89.6
Acinetobacter	2351–4123	None
C. vinosum	831–1898	907–1953	92.9
M. extorquens	1099–2736	591–2741	100
N. corralina	471–2156	551–2587	95.3
P. aeruginosa 1	1266–2945	1472–2935	87.1
P. aeruginosa 2	4259–5941	4687–6096	74.6
P. denitrificans	662–2536	205–1605	50.3
P. oleovorans 1	552–2233	492–1908	80.6
P. oleovorans 2	3217–4950	3093–5063	100
R. eutropha	842–2611	1075–2619	86.8
R. etli	121–2031	48–1400	67.0
R. meliloti	316–2049	<1–1934	93.4
R. sphaeroides	1023–2828	918–2773	97.1
R. ruber	786–2462	119–2419	97.4
Synechocystis	2242–3378	None
T. violacea	3028–4095	2028–4016	92.6
Z. ramigera	740–2470	733–2373	94.4

^aThe location of the coding regions with respect to the reported pha sequences is indicated. 

^bThe percent overlap indicates the length of the phaC gene that has phaQ sequence on the complementary strand as part of the length of phaC. It is unknown whether phaQ represents coding information for an actual protein or RNA molecule.