The Analysis of Multiple Genome Comparisons in Genus Escherichia and Its Application to the Discovery of Uncharacterised Metabolic Genes in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli CFT073

Table 3

Comparison of SAC No. 15 in CFT073 to the Klebsiella pneumoniae L-sorbose degradation operon.

CFT073	CFT073 name	Klebsiella name	Klebsiella	Protein
gene ID			Locus	Similarity (%)
c4981	Putative oxidoreductase	L-sorbose 1-phosphate reductase	SorE	91
c4982	PTS system, mannose-specific	second subunit of EII-Sor	SorM	97
	IID component
c4983	PTS system, mannose-specific	first subunit of EII-Sor	SorA	95
	IIC component
c4984	Putative sorbose PTS component	EIII-B Sor PTS	SorB	92
c4985	Putative sorbose PTS component	EIII-F Sor PTS	SorF	82
c4986	sorbitol-6-phosphate 2-dehydrogenase	D-glucitol-6-P-Dehydrogenase	SorD	92
c4987	Putative transcriptional regulator	Sor regulator	SorC	92
	of sorbose uptake and utilization genes