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From: Locus of Adhesion and Autoaggregation (LAA), a pathogenicity island present in emerging Shiga Toxin–producing Escherichia coli strains

Figure 2

Genetic structure of the Locus of Adherence and Autoaggregation (LAA) pathogenicity island. (A) Predicted genes and direction of transcription are represented as block arrows. Open reading frames (ORFs) are color coded according to gene function, as indicated by legend at the bottom. Names of some genes are shown. Features of each ORF are listed in Supplementary Table 3. This DNA region is located between positions 385,984–472,336 bp in the contig #25 (GenBank accession: AFDQ01000026) of the draft genome of the B2F1 strain56. This pathogenicity island has a mosaic structure that is organized in modules flanked by IS elements and/or DR sequences. Dotted line, DNA region reported by Shen et al.17. (B) G + C content of each module: I (48.6%), II (43.8%), III (50.2%) and IV (51.7%).

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