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Table 4 M. leprae PE, PGRS and PPE genes

From: Evolution and expansion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE and PPE multigene families and their association with the duplication of the ESAT-6 (esx) gene cluster regions

PE genes

M. leprae gene number

M. leprae gene name*

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene number

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene name

ML0196c (pseudogene)

PE 1

Rv3650

PE33

ML0263c (pseudogene)

PE2

Rv1040c

PE8

ML0410

PE3

M. leprae-specific

-

ML0538

PE4

Rv1386

PE15

ML1053

PE5

Rv1195

PE13

ML1183c

PE6

M. leprae-specific paralogue of Rv1195

-

ML1493 (pseudogene)

PE7

Rv1172c

PE12

ML1534c (pseudogene)

PE8

Rv1806

PE20

ML1743c (pseudogene)

PE9

M. leprae-specific

-

ML2534c

PE10

Rv0285

PE5

ML2632 (pseudogene)

PE11

Rv0160c

PE4

ML1865c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML2129c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML 2477 (pseudogene)

-

Rv3746c

PE34

PE_PGRS genes

M. leprae gene number

M. leprae gene name*

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene number

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene name

ML0194c (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS1

Rv3653

PE_PGRS61

ML0495 (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS2

M. leprae-specific

-

ML1092c (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS3

Rv1243c

PE_PGRS23

ML1403 (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS4

Rv1651c

PE_PGRS30

ML1414 (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS5

M. leprae-specific

-

ML2241c (pseudogene)

PE_PGRS6

Rv0754

PE_PGRS11

ML0147 (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML0946

-

M. leprae-specific

-

PPE genes

M. leprae gene number

M. leprae gene name*

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene number

M. tuberculosis orthologue gene name

ML0026 (pseudogene)

PPE1

M. leprae-specific

-

ML0277 (pseudogene)

PPE2

Rv0388c

PPE9

ML0328c (pseudogene)

PPE3

M. leprae-specific paralogue of Rv3021c

paralogue of PPE47

ML0503 (pseudogene)

PPE4

M. leprae-specific

-

ML0539

PPE5

Rv1387

PPE20

ML0797c (pseudogene)

PPE6

M. leprae-specific

-

ML0828 (pseudogene)

PPE7

Rv2352c

PPE38

ML1054 (pseudogene)

PPE8

Rv1196

PPE18

ML1182c

PPE9

M. leprae-specific paralogue of Rv1196

-

ML1308c (pseudogene)

PPE10

Rv2123

PPE37

ML1533c (pseudogene)

PPE11

Rv1807

PPE31

ML1828c

PPE12

Rv0256c

PPE2

ML1991

PPE13

Rv0096

PPE1

ML2369c (pseudogene)

PPE14

Rv0442c

PPE10

ML2533c (pseudogene)

PPE15

Rv0286

PPE4

ML2538c (pseudogene)

PPE16

M. leprae-specific, situated between Rv0281 and 82

-

ML0051c

PPE68

Rv3873

PPE68

ML0411

-

M. leprae-specific

-

not annotated, situated between ML0262c and 63c (pseudogene)

-

Rv1039c

PPE15

ML1754 (pseudogene)

-

Rv1361c

PPE19

ML0588

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML1935c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML1967c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML1968c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML2128c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

ML2243c (pseudogene)

-

M. leprae-specific

-

  1. * Regrettably, and in contrast to the annotation of the PE and PPE genes in M. bovis, the genes in M. leprae are annotated according to their own PE and PPE numbers and not according to the same numbers as its corresponding orthologue in M. tuberculosis, with the only exception being PPE68 which have the same name in both species.