Yersinia enterocolitica palearctica serobiotype O:3/4 - a successful group of emerging zoonotic pathogens

BMC Genomics

Table 1 General features of the genome and virulence plasmid of serobiotypes O:3/4 strain Y11 and O:8/1B strain 8081.

Feature	Genome Y11	Genome 8081	Plasmid pYVO3 Y11	Plasmid pYVO8 8081
Genome size	4553420	4615899	72460	67721
GC content in %	47.01	47.27	43.99	43
Number of coding sequences (CDS)	4355	3978	112*	72
Average size of CDS	884	968	506	672
Coding density in %	85	83	78	71
rRNA clusters	7	7	none	none
tRNAs	70	81	none	none

*) The higher number of CDS for the O:3/4 pYV plasmid compared to O:8/1B is evoked by more transposase-like CDS (including also remnant or fragmented transposases) and more than 20 hypothetical CDS with no strong similarity on protein level to serobiotype O:8/1B. In addition, we found an arsABRH gene cluster present in the pYV plasmid of serobiotypes O:3/4 and O:9/2, but not in O:8/1B.

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