Comparative secretome analysis suggests low plant cell wall degrading capacity in Frankia symbionts

Juliana E Mastronunzio¹ , Louis S Tisa² , Philippe Normand³ and David R Benson¹

¹Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, U-3125, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

²Department of Microbiology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

³Ecologie Microbienne UMR CNRS 5557, Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne 69622 cedex, France

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:47doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-47


Published:	28 January 2008

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Additional File 1:

Secretion machinery genes. This table lists the genes encoding secretion machinery components in the three Frankia genomes.

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Additional File 2:

Individual Frankia secretomes. This table lists the proteins in each Frankia genome predicted to contain a signal peptide by both SignalP methods (NN and HMM), and with 0–2 trans-membrane domains predicted by TMHMM.

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Tat signal peptides predicted by TATFIND 1.4. This table lists the proteins in each strain predicted to contain a Tat signal peptide by TATFIND 1.4, and shows their N-terminal sequences, including putative Tat motifs.

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The core Frankia secretome. This table lists the 161 proteins in the core Frankia secretome, with SignalP predictions listed for each strain.

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