Fig. 3

Alignment of R. rickettsii strain Iowa sRNA candidate #118. The sRNA candidate #118, predicted only in R. rickettsii strain Iowa but not in strain Sheila Smith and the 150 bp up- and downstream regions of predicted sRNA were aligned with the corresponding genomic region from strain Sheila Smith. The predicted −10 box (orange), −35 box (blue), sRNA sequence (green) and the Rho independent terminator (yellow) are highlighted. A nucleotide sequence absent in the genomic sequence of strain Sheila Smith and mapping to the predicted sRNA and the Rho independent terminator in strain Iowa is shown by the dotted line