“…Plc-1 and Plc-2 arẽ 47 % identical and~60 % similar to the PlcN of P. aeruginosa and both are 42 % identical and 54 % similar to the PlcH of that organism. Most notably, the sequence of Plc-1 is nearly identical (a single amino acid difference: arginine changed to glutamine) to one (BMA0584) of the two Burkholderia mallei (Nierman et al, 2004) predicted PLCs, and the B. pseudomallei Plc-3 is completely identical to the other PLC encoded in the B. mallei genome (BMAA 0079). These data would suggest that B. mallei has lost, or never acquired, the plc-2 gene but has retained plc-1 and plc-3 of B. pseudomallei.…”