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Unraveling the evolutionary history of the phosphoryl-transfer chain of the phosphoenolpyruvate:phosphotransferase system through phylogenetic analyses and genome context

Iñaki Comas1 email, Fernando González-Candelas1 email and Manuel Zúñiga2 email

1Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

2Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos, CSIC, Valencia, Spain

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:147doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-147

Published: 16 May 2008

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Supplementary tables. Supplementary Table 1 lists the organisms included in this study. Supplementary Table 2 lists accession numbers and characteristics of the sequences utilized in this study.

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Supplementary figures. Figure S1: likelihood mapping analysis. Figures S2 and S3: maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees for EI and HPr sequences, respectively. Figure S4: schematic representation of the proposed ancestral rpoN gene cluster of Proteobacteria. Figure S5: comparison of the topologies of phylogenetic trees for 16S and EI sequences belonging to groups R, Ntr and T (VPES). Figure S6: phylogenetic reconstruction of 16S rRNA sequences of the strains used in this study harbouring genes encoding EI, HPr or HPrK. Figure S7: ptsH or ptsI gene clusters of Actinobacteria. Figure S8: gene clusters containing FPr encoding genes and related homologues. Figure S9: sequence alignment of the IIAFru and the intervening domain of FPr proteins, Acinetobacter sp. FruB protein, and the tandem IIAFru domains of Pseudomonas FruA proteins. Figure S10: ptsK gene clusters of Bacillales. Figure S11: ptsK gene clusters of Firmicutes and F. nucleatum. Figure S12: ptsH or ptsI gene clusters of Firmicutes, VPES, Borrelia and F. nucleatum.

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