The Complete Genome and Proteome of Mycoplasma mobile

Table 6.

Lateral Transfer Candidates


Accession

Gene name

Function

Closest homolog in

BLAST E-value

% GCa

CAIb

Comment
MMOB0940 MMOB0940 Conserved hypothetical protein Helicobacter pylori 1 × 10-15 24% 0.654
MMOB0950 MMOB0950 Putative type II DNA methylase protein Chlorella virus NY2A 2 × 10-19 24% 0.659 Also strong homologs in H. pylori
MMOB4460 arsR Arsenical resistance operon repressor family protein Dechloromonas aromatica 6 × 10-6 25% 0.661 Stop codon is TGA in Dechloromonas ortholog, translated as Trp in M. mobile
MMOB5030 MMOB5030 Expressed protein of unknown function Pirellula sp. 9 × 10-32 24% 0.678 Pirellula is an aquatic bacterium
MMOB5780 bioF 8-Amino-7-oxononanoate synthase (or related protein) Enterococcus faecium 1 × 10-153 30% 0.689 See text
MMOB5790 wcaG NAD-dependent nucleoside-diphosphate-sugar epimerase E. faecium 1 × 10-129 30% 0.717 See text
MMOB5850 MMOB5850 Conserved hypothetical protein Rickettsia rickettsii 3 × 10-15 19% 0.739 Has some homologs in Gram-positive (including M. penetrans) but best hits are in Gram-negative
MMOB5990 MMOB5990 Hypothetical protein Ferroplasma acidarmanus 8 × 10-12 24% 0.668 F. acidarmanus is an archaeon
MMOB6010
udgA
UDP-glucose dehydrogenase
Environmental sequence
5 × 10-34
25%
0.781
Best named species hit is Mycobacterium avium, also hits in archaea
  • a The average GC content of M. mobile is 24.9%.

  • b CAI is the codon adaptation index as calculated by the method of Sharp and Li (1987). The average CAI for a gene in M. mobile is 0.720 ± 0.049. See also the Supplementary Table of Ambiguous Gene Phylogenies.

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