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Table 7 Summary of Ehrlichia tandem repeats present in gp36 glycoprotein orthologs

From: New species of Ehrlichia isolated from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus shows an ortholog of the E. canis major immunogenic glycoprotein gp36 with a new sequence of tandem repeats

 

Repeat

 

Source

Strain

Length (bp)1

No.1

Homology% (bp)1

Consensus tandem repeat sequence (aa)2

Ehrlichia mineirensis

(UFMG-EV)

27

16.0

100

VPAASGDAQ

Ehrlichia canis gp36

TWN1 [EF551366]

27

13.2

100

TEDSVSAPA

Louisiana [DQ146151]

27

5.2

99

. . . . . . .

Sao Paulo [DQ146154]

27

18.2

100

. . . . . . .

Cameroon [DQ146155]

27

16.2

100

. . . . . . .

IS [EF636663]

27

11.2

99

TEDPVSATA

Ehrlichia chaffeensis gp47

Arkansas [DQ085430]

57

7.0

99

ASVSEGDAVVNAVSQETPA

Sapulpa [DQ085431]

99

4.5

99

EGNASEPVVSQEAAPVSESGDAANPVSSSENAS

Jax [DQ146156]

99

4.5

98

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

St Vincent [DQ146157]

99

3.4

98

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ehrlichia ruminantium mucin-like protein

Highway [AF308673]

27

21.7

99

VTSSPEGSV

Welgevonden [CR767821]

27

56.0

95

. . . . . . .

Gardel [CR925677]

66

16.9

99

SSEVTESNQGSSASVVGDAGVQ

  1. 1 – The length (bp), No of nucleotide repeats and the % of Homology were determinate using the Tandem Repeats Finder database[21].
  2. 2 – The dots below the tandems mean conserved aa sequence.
  3. Accession Numbers are from GenBank.