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.