Table 1: Identity of 2-DE protein spots unique to non-culturable and resuscitation phase of M. tuberculosis H37Rv.

S.no./ Spot no Protein identification Accession no Mr theoretical pI theoretical MASCOT scorea Sequence coverage (%) Gene productb
1/ SSP0004 Resuscitation phase Rv0009 19.28 6.2 61 41 Peptidyl cis-trans isomeraseA
2/ SSP0007 Non-culturable phase Rv0046c 40.09 4.8 66 35 Inositol 1-phosphate synthetase
3/ SSP3104 Non-culturable phase Rv3417c 56.69 4.85 180 59 60 KDa chaperonin 1 (groEL1)
4/ SSP1001 Non-culturable phase Rv2031c 16.21 4.75 65 43 HspX (heat shock protein)
5/ SSP2303 Resuscitation phase Rv2667 26.62 5.5 52 28 Probable ATP dependent protease (clpC2)
6/ SSP3003 Non-culturable phase Rv3418c 10.77 4.3 107 61 10 KDa chaperonin (groES)
7/ SSP3204 Non-culturable phase Rv2744c 29.25 5.7 53 34 35 KDa alanine rich protein
8/ SSP4103 Non-culturable phase Rv3786c 44.94 5.04 64 24 Hypothetical protein
9/ SSP5102 Resuscitation phase Rv0685 43.56 5.11 79 36 Iron-regulated elongation factor (EF-TU)
10/ SSP5706 Resuscitation phase Rv1308 59.28 4.78 50 46 Probable ATP synthase a-chain
11/ SSP6505 Non-culturable phase Rv2623 31.65 5.55 127 40 Conserved hypothetical
12/ SSP7102 Resuscitation phase Rv1479 40.76 6.35 108 27 Transcriptional regulatory protein MoxR1
13/ SSP7504 Non-culturable phase Rv2626c 15.51 4.77 68 35 Conserved hypothetical
14/ SSP7609 Resuscitation phase Rv3015c 34.21 4.48 50 15 Conserved hypothetical


a) MASCOT protein scores greater than 48 for mycobacterial proteins are considered significant (p<0.05).
b) Refers to the M. tuberculosis H37Rv gene classification of the Sanger Institute.