Features of a novel protein, rusticalin, from the ascidian Styela rustica reveal ancestral horizontal gene transfer event

Features of a novel protein, rusticalin, from the ascidian Styela rustica reveal ancestral horizontal gene transfer event

Abstract Background The transfer of genetic material from non-parent organisms is called horizontal gene transfer (HGT). One of the most conclusive cases of HGT in metazoans was previously described for the cellulose synthase gene in ascidians. Results In this study we identified a new protein, rust...

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Main Authors: Maria A. Daugavet, Sergey Shabelnikov, Alexander Shumeev, Tatiana Shaposhnikova, Leonid S. Adonin, Olga Podgornaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Mobile DNA
Subjects:
Ascidians
Bacteriophage
Hemocytes
Horizontal gene transfer
L-alanyl-D-glutamate peptidase
Trichoplax
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13100-019-0146-7

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