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Bacterial and fungal chitinase chiJ orthologs evolve under different selective constraints following horizontal gene transfer

Wimal Ubhayasekera1 and Magnus Karlsson2*

1 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology (IMBIM), Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Box 582, SE-75123, Uppsala, Sweden

2 Uppsala BioCenter, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, SE-75007, Uppsala, Sweden

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BMC Research Notes 2012, 5:581 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-581

Published: 24 October 2012

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Protein structures used for structural alignment.

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Additional file 2:

Alignment of Streptomyces sp.ChiJ sequences.

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Predicted catalytic and substrate binding residues in ChiJ.

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