Supplementary material for Jáger et al.

Supplementary material for the manuscript

Edit Kassai-Jáger, Csaba Ortutay, Gábor Tóth, Tibor Vellai and Zoltán Gáspári:
Distribution and Evolution of Short Tandem Repeats in Closely Related Bacterial Genomes


Table S1. Repeat istribution statistics for the investigated bacteria

A) Escherichia coli CFT073
B)Escherichia coli K12
C) Escherichia coli O157H7 EDL933
D) Escherichia coli O157H7

E) Chlamydia_muridarum
F) Chlamydia trachomatis
G) Chlamydophila caviae
H) Chlamydophila pneumoniae AR39
I) Chlamydophila pneumoniae CWL029
J) Chlamydophila pneumoniae J138
K) Chlamydophila pneumoniae TW 183

Table S2. Repeat distribution similarity calculations for perfect-imperfect repeats in each bacterium and all-against-all comparison of bacterial repeats

A) Summary of the calculations
B) Details of the calculations

Table S3. Statistics of amino acid repeats coded by the trinucleotide repeats identified

A) perfect trinucleotide repeats
B) imperfect trinucleotide repeats

Table S4. Data of top 10 genes with highest repeat content

A) top 10 genes with highest perfect repeat content
B) top 10 genes with highest imperfect repeat content

Table S5. Details of genes with high repeat content [xls]

Table S6. SSRs detected in genes introduced by horizontal gene transfer into the common ancestors of several of the Chlamydial strains investigated [xls]

Figure S1. Total length per megabase of imperfect trinucleotide repeats [pdf]

Figure S2 A) Graphical summary of the genomic distributions of the individual trinucleotide repeat classes in the E. coli strains [pdf]

Figure S2 B) Graphical summary of the genomic distributions of the individual trinucleotide repeat classes in the Chlamydia strains [pdf]

Figure S3 A) Alignment of the agc repeat region of the tolA gene in the 4 E. coli genomes [pdf]

Figure S3 B) Alignment of the agc repeat region of the ftsK gene in the 4 E. coli genomes [pdf]

Figure S4 Full sequence alignments of the tolA and ftsK genes in the 4 E. coli strains [pdf]