Table 5

List of genes putatively horizontally transferred between Halobacterium sp. (H. sp.) and the mesophilic Bacteria Synechocystis sp. and Bacillus subtilis ("Information Storage and Processing" meta-category only).

Protein Name

H. sp. GI number

tRNA synthetases for serine, valine, methionine, cysteine, arginine, proline

10581491, 10581937,10579953, 10580644,10584349, 10580016

phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase subunit alpha

10581896

Glu-tRNA amidotransferase subunits A, B

10580435, 10579969

tRNA-pseudouridine synthase

10581191

dimethyladenosine transferase

10580702

DNA gyrase subunits A, B

[10580453, 10580452]

DNA helicase

10580995

excision nuclease ABC chains A, B, C (involved in DNA repair)

10582016, 10581796, 10581790

endonuclease V (involved in DNA repair)

10579981

DNA mismatch repair protein

10579807

Putative translation factor SUA5

10581723

Translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit alpha

10581299

Initiation factor IF2

10581429

ribosomal proteins L1, L11, L3, S4

[10580652, 10580653], 10581159, 10580672

GI numbers in brackets correspond to genes in operons. This list is derived analyses of genome quartets #11 and #61. A complete list of all GI numbers for each QuartOP as well as the four definition lines is available in the supplementary material.

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