Simple sequence repeats in Helicobacter canadensis and their role in phase variable expression and C-terminal sequence switching

Table 2 C-terminal phase variable gene candidates in H. canadensis strain NCTC 13241.

Tract *	Range†	Frame 1 ‡	Frame 2 ‡	Frame 3 ‡	CDS length in amino acids	Locus TagG	ene	Description
(G)14	(G)11 - 17	4	1	18	322	HCAN_0165	rfbB	NAD-dependent epimerase/dehydratase
(G)13	(G)10 - 16	17	4	2	267	HCAN_0641		3-oxoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase
(G)11	(G)8 - 14	17	18	22	317	HCAN_0643		Methionyl-tRNA Formyl-transferase
(G)12	(G)10 - 14	5	1	50	429	HCAN_0653		hypothetical protein
(G)13	(G)11 - 16	14	104	25	382	HCAN_0660		hypothetical protein
(G)10	(G)8 - 12	1	35	2	243	HCAN_0665		conserved hypothetical protein
(G)11	(G)9 - 13	2	0	16	155	HCAN_0914	flaG	flagellar proteinG
(G)12	(G)10 - 13	17	19	30	445	HCAN_1332		conserved

* Tract length from accession number CM000776 [32].
† Range is the range of repeat copy number observed in the sequence read data (see Additional Files 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29).
‡ Frame is the number of amino acids after the homopolymeric tract before the termination codon; bold is the annotated C-terminus.

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