BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Horizontal gene transfer of zinc and non-zinc forms of bacterial ribosomal protein S4

Ke Chen1, Elijah Roberts1 and Zaida Luthey-Schulten1,2,3*

  • * Corresponding author: Zaida Luthey-Schulten zan@uiuc.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

2 Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

3 Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:179 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-179

Published: 29 July 2009

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Genomes used in the study. The table contains the list of genomes used along with the occurrence of zinc-binding ribosomal proteins sequences in each.

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Additional File 2:

S4 sequence alignment. The sequence alignment contains the full alignment of all S4 sequences used in the study.

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Additional File 3:

Zur binding site search profiles for Actinobacteria. The Zur binding site searching profile for Actinobacteria contains reference profile we used as seeds and fed into the software MEME/MAST to search for the Zur DNA-binding motifs in other paralogous Actinobacteria S4 genes.

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Additional File 4:

Zur binding site search profiles for Gammaproteobacteria. The Zur binding site searching profile for Gammaproteobacteria contains reference profile used as seeds for the software MEME/MAST to search for the Zur DNA-binding motifs in other paralogous Proteobacteria S4 genes.

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Additional File 5:

Zur binding site search profiles for Bacillus. The Zur binding site searching profile for Bacillus contains reference profile used as seeds for the software MEME/MAST to search for the Zur DNA-binding motifs in paralogous Clostridia S4 genes.

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