Figure 1

Distribution of transposon insertions on a circular plot of the C. glutamicum ATCC 13032 genome [GenBank:BX927147]. Coloured bars of the outer circle pointing inward and outward show the orientation of the cointegrates with respect to the genome in clockwise and counterclockwise direction, respectively. Red bars indicate the integration positions mapped for randomly selected clones and black bars map those investigated by auxotrophy analysis. Additional circles (from inward to outward) represent relative G+C content and coding regions transcribed in clockwise and counterclockwise direction, respectively. A positive deviation in G+C content from the average (53.8%) is shown by bars pointing outward and a negative deviation by bars pointing inward. Annotated genes are coloured according to the colour scheme of the functional classes system COG (cluster of orthologous groups) [89]. The plot was generated with GenDB version 2.2 [90].