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. 2005 Aug;187(15):5330–5340. doi: 10.1128/JB.187.15.5330-5340.2005

TABLE 2.

Degenerate oligonuleotide probes used to identify the putative adhesin from an F. nucleatum genomic library

Probe(s) Sequenceb
FadA N-terminal sequencea ATDAASLVGELQALDA
Pool 1 GCXACXGATGCTGCTTCATTAGTXGGXGAA
Pool 2 GCXACXGATGCTGCTTCTTTAGTXGGXGAA
Pool 3 GCXACXGATGCTGCTAGTTTAGTXGGXGAA
Pool 4 TTAGTXGGXGAATTACAGGCXTTAGATGC
a

Sequence identified by protein N-terminal microsequencing.

b

X, A or T. The nucleotides that differ in pools 1, 2, and 3 are underlined.