Mutations in Putative Mutator Genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains of the W-Beijing Family
Mina Ebrahimi Rad*, Pablo Bifani†, Carlos Martin‡, Kristin Kremer§, Sofia Samper‡, Jean Rauzier*, Barry N. Kreiswirth¶, Jesus Blazquez#, Marc Jouan*, Dick van Soolingen§, and Brigitte Gicquel*
Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; †Institut Pasteur, Lille, France; ‡Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; §National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; ¶Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey, USA; #National Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain
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Figure 2. MutT proteins’ sequences alignment. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2985(MutT1), Rv1160(MutT2), Rv0413(MutT3), and Rv3908(MutT4) were selected from the M. tuberculosis genome because of their annotation or after a BLAST analysis. These sequences were compared to Escherichia coli mutT by using alignments available from: http://www.biochem.uthscsa.edu/~barnes/mutt.html. The detected region of similarity is shown here. #, absolutely conserved residues; *, residues that are strongly conserved and that define the mutT or nudix motif.
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