Figure 10

Plasmid regions containing bonts. This is an expanded image of the regions between the symbols in Figure 9 and provides details of the genes located within the different plasmids in these areas. The horizontal arrows indicate coding sequences (CDSs). Gene designations are labelled above the arrow. GenBank locus IDs are labelled below the arrow. The first CDS was given the full GenBank locus ID followed by an abbreviated ID that uses only the last two to three digits. The figure shows that the bonts within the plasmids in these Group I strains are located in either of two sites. One location (between the yellow and blue symbols) contains either the bont/f of the Bf strain, the bont/a4 of the 657 strain or the bont/a3 of the Loch Maree strain. The numbers in parentheses, such as 23,742 bp in the pBf panel, indicate additional sequence in that region that is not detailed but is shown in Figure 9. The other plasmid site that contains the bont/b in several plasmids is depicted between the green and purple symbols. This region contains the bont/bv b or bont/b1 in the Bf strain, 657 strain or the Okra strain. The bottom panel depicts the region containing the bont/np b within the Eklund 17B strain. This region shares no similarity to the Group I plasmids.