Table 1

Chlamydiae-like genes detected in red algae and green plants

Gene name or gene product
Presence
Putative function

Phosphoglycerate mutase
G
Glycolysis
CMP-KDO synthetase
G
Cell envelope formation
4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol kinase (ispE)
R and G
Isoprenoid biosynthesis
Polynucleotide phosphorylase
R and G
RNA degradation
Aspartate transaminase
R and G
Amino acid metabolism
Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase
R and G
Translation
Oligoendopeptidase F
R
Amino acid biosynthesis
2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase (ispD)
R and G
Isoprenoid biosynthesis
Enoyl-ACP reductase (fabI)
R and G
Fatty acid biosynthesis
23S rRNA (Uracil-5-)-methyltransferase
R and G
RNA modification
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase
R and G
Phospholipid biosynthesis
ADT/ATP translocase
R and G
ATP/ADP transport
Isoamylase
R and G
Starch biosynthesis
Phosphate transporter
G
Phosphate transport
Hypothetical protein
R
Unknown
β-Ketoacyl-ACP synthase (fabF)
R and G
Fatty acid biosynthesis
Malate dehydrogenase
G
Energy conversion
Sodium:hydrogen antiporter
R and G
Ion transport
4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate synthase (gcpE) (GcpE)
R and G
Isoprenoid biosynthesis
Sugar phosphate isomerase
G
Sugar interconversion
Cu-ATPase
R and G
Ion transport

The genome sequences of glaucophytes are not available for comparison, except for the ATP/ADP translocase, which is reportedly present in the glaucophyte Cyanophora paradoxa [25] and was also identified in another glaucophyte Glaucocystis from the Taxonomically Broad EST Database (TBestDB). G, green plants; R, red algae.

Huang and Gogarten Genome Biology 2007 8:R99   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r99