Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Predicting Phenotype and Emerging Strains among Chlamydia trachomatis Infections

Deborah Dean

, William J. Bruno, Raymond Wan, João P. Gomes, Stéphanie Devignot, Tigist Mehari, Henry J.C. de Vries, Servaas A. Morré, Garry Myers, Timothy D. Read, and Brian G. Spratt

Author affiliations: Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, USA (D. Dean, R. Wan, T. Mehari); University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (D. Dean); University of California, Berkeley, California, USA (D. Dean); Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA (W.J. Bruno); National Institute of Health, Lisbon, Portugal (J.P. Gomes); Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées, Marseille, France (S. Devignot); University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (H.J.C. de Vries); Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam (S.A. Morré); University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (G. Myers); Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.D. Read); Imperial College, London, UK (B.G. Spratt)

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Comparison of 14 housekeeping genes among genome sequences of 4 Chlamydiaceae species and 7 strains. Circle 1, genes on forward Chlamydia trachomatis strand, color coded by role category; Circle 2, genes on reverse C. trachomatis strand; Circle 3, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) candidates, C. trachomatis; Circle 4, MLST candidates, C. pneumoniae AR39; Circle 5, MLST candidates, C. caviae (GPIC); Circle 6, MLST candidates, C. muridarum (MoPn). Colors in circles 3, 4, 5 and 6 are consistent for

Figure 1. Comparison of 14 housekeeping genes among genome sequences of 4 Chlamydiaceae species and 7 strains. Circle 1, genes on forward Chlamydia trachomatis strand, color coded by role category; Circle 2, genes on reverse C. trachomatis strand; Circle 3, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) candidates, C. trachomatis; Circle 4, MLST candidates, C. pneumoniae AR39; Circle 5, MLST candidates, C. caviae (GPIC); Circle 6, MLST candidates, C. muridarum (MoPn). Colors in circles 3, 4, 5 and 6 are consistent for each gene across genomes i.e., “blue” gene in each circle is ortholog in that genome for “blue” gene in C. trachomatis. Blue, glyA, serine hydroxymethyl-transferase; red, tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase; yellow, mdhC, malate dehydrogenase; green, V-type ATPase, subunit A; cyan, pdhA, pyruvate dehydrogenase; black, GTP-binding protein lepa; magenta, transcription termination factor rho; brown, yhbG, probable ABC transporter ATP-binding protein; orange, pykF, pyruvate kinase; olive green, conserved hypothetical protein; gray, acetyl-CoA carboxylase beta subunit; pink, threonyl-tRNA synthetase; violet, lysS, lysyl-tRNA synthetase; light green, leuS, leucyl-tRNA synthetase. Those denoted in boldface above were used for C. trachomatis MLST. ompA gene location is shown for C. trachomatis (dark green).

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