Figure 2

The vast majority of S. agalactiae promoters are sigma70 dependent. A. Motif search upstream of 1179/1210 S. agalactiae TSSs reveals extended Pribnow or −10 boxes and less conserved −35 boxes. The consensus sequence was generated using WebLogo (http://weblogo.berkeley.edu/logo.cgi). B. Mean distances between the −10 box and the TSS (d1) and between the −10 and −35 boxes (d2). Distances were calculated between the 3′ end nucleotide of the −10 box and the TSS and between the 3′ nucleotide of the −35 box and the 5′ nucleotide of the TATAAT sequence.