Possible “Core Set” of Motility Genes
Conservation pattern | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene | Function | Mycoplasma penetrans | Ureaplasma parvum | Mycoplasma mycoides | Mesoplasma florum | |||
| MMOB0420 | Unspecified transport or permease protein | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| MMOB0430 | Unspecified transport or permease protein | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| MMOB1310 | Expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB1700 | Conserved expressed protein of unknown function, possibly protein prenyltransferase | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB1730 | Predicted signaling protein consisting of a modified GGDEF domain and a DHH domain (mgpA homolog) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB1910 | Conserved expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB3070 | Expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB3080 | Expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| sua5 (MMOB3710) | Putative translation factor | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| mraZ (MMOB3790) | Expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| MMOB4550 | Expressed protein of unknown function | ✓ | ||||||
| thiJ (MMOB5890) | Putative intracellular protease/amidase and/or 4-methyl-5(b-hydroxyethyl)-thiazole monophosphate biosynthesis protein | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
[i] Each of the genes listed has an ortholog in all of the motile mycoplasmas, but one or more is missing in each of the immotile mycoplasmas.