Figure 8

Variety of gene organisation for the methionine salvage pathway in different bacteria. The organisation of the genes coding for the methionine salvage pathway is shown in several bacteria: B. subtilis, P. aeruginosa, X. fastidiosa, L. interrogans and T. tencongensis. The pathway is as described in Figure 1. Genes with the same function are indicated with the same color code. When a gene arrow is broken, this indicates that the function is the same, but that the gene product differs (enolase (MtnW) and phosphatase (MtnX) in B. subtilis, vs enolase-phosphatase (MtnC) in other organisms). The stem and loop symbol indicates the presence of a S-box riboswitch. In B. subtilis the enolase-phosphatase activity found in other organisms is replaced by two enzymes, a RuBisCO-like enolase and a phosphatase. In X. fastidiosa, downstream of the main operon on can see a truncated form of mtnK (broken arrow) requiring the presence of mtnP instead.