Comparison of the replicons found in Borrelia afzelii K78 to the published sequences of B. afzelii strains ACA-1, PKo and B. burgdorferi strain B31.

a Accession numbers (GenBank, RefSeq) are listed in S3 Table.b Another cp9 plasmid has been described for B31 which is named cp9–2 (renaming the listed to cp9–1) [65]c The attribution to code “Q” which is the naming for cp32–10 has been made via the presence of the respective plasmid partitioning protein type of the paralogous family 32 (PFam32). The linear plasmid lp56 in B31 is longer and contains parts analog to the cp32–10 type plasmids therefore this plasmid has been proposed to be attributed to code “Q” [46]. Linear plasmids lp32–10, as seen in PKo and ACA-1, carry a PFam32 gene similar to cp32–10 and therefore also get the code “Q” in spite of carrying different gene content.d There is data from an earlier PKo genome project available, with a chromosome length of 905.4 kbp, GenBank CP000395) with an apparent insert of two genes (BAPKO_0393, BAPKO_0395) and a full definition of the 3’-terminal arcB gene (truncated in the listed chromosome).e Two more plasmids, cp32–2, which has identical PFam32 and PFam49 genes as cp32–7, and cp32–5 have been described in [66] but have not yet been sequenced in full length.Comparison of the replicons found in Borrelia afzelii K78 to the published sequences of B. afzelii strains ACA-1, PKo and B. burgdorferi strain B31.