Phylogeny and Protein Signatures for Actinobacteria
(High G+C Gram-Positive Bacteria)

Signature proteins that are specific for Actinobacteria

 

  • Table 1 - Actinobacterial species with sequenced genomes
  • Table 2 - Signature Proteins Specific for Actinobacteria
  • Table 3 - Signature Proteins specific for Actinobacteria, except Bifidobacterium longum
  • Table 4 - Signature proteins which are mainly present in CMN subgroup, Streptomyces, Thermobifida, and Frankia but not found in Bifidobacterium and Micrococcineae
  • Table 5 - Signature proteins specific to Streptomyces and Thermobifida
  • Table 6 - CMN subgroup-specific proteins
  • Table 7 - Signature proteins specific for Mycobacterium and Nocardia
  • Table 8 - Mycobacterium -specific proteins
  • Table 9 - Actinobacteria -specific proteins with sporadic distribution
  • Supplemental Table 1 - Actinobacterial signature proteins with gene lose in some species
  • Supplemental Table 1(b) - Actinobacterial signature proteins which are not present in Bifodobacterium longum and Tropheryma whipplei
  • Supplemental Table 1(c) - Actinobacterial signature proteins which are not present in Bifodobacterium longum, Tropheryma whipplei and Leifsonia xyli
  • Supplemental Table 1(d)- Actinboacterial signature proteins which are mainly lost in Bifodobacterium longum, Tropheryma whipplei, Leifsonia xyli and Corynebacterium species
  • Supplemental Table 2 - Proteins specific to the Micrococcineae
  • Supplemental Table 3 - Actinobacteria-specific proteins with sporadic distribution

 

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Selected References

Boone,D.R., Castenholz,R.W., & Garrity,G.M. (2001). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. New York: Springer.

Gao,B. & Gupta,R.S. (2005). Conserved Indels in Protein Sequences that are Characteristic of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol, 55: 2401-2412.

Gao, B., Parmanathan, R. and Gupta, R.S. (2006) Signature Proteins that are Distinctive Characteristics of Actinobacteria and Their Subgroups . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 90(1):69-91.

Goodfellow,M. & Williams,S.T. (1983). Ecology of Actinomycetes. Annual Review of Microbiology, 37, 189-216.

Hopwood,D.A. (1999). Forty years of genetics with Streptomyces: from in vivo through in vitro to in silico. Microbiology, 145, 2183-2202.

Ludwig,W. & Klenk,H.-P. (2001). Overview: A phylogenetic backbone and taxonomic framework for prokaryotic systamatics. In D.R.Boone & R.W.Castenholz (Eds.), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (pp. 49-65). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Roller C, Ludwig W, & Schleifer KH (1992). Gram-positive bacteria with a high DNA G+C content are characterized by a common insertion within their 23S rRNA genes. J.Gen.Microbiol, 138, 167-175.

Stackebrandt,E., Rainey,F.A., & WardRainey,N.L. (1997). Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol, 47(2), 479-491.

Stackebrandt, E.and Schumann, P. (2000). Introduction to the Taxonomy of Actinobacteria. InM.Dworkin & et al (Eds.), The Prokaryotes: An Evolving Electronic Resource for the Microbiological Community New York: Springer-Verlag.

Sutcliffe,I.C. & Harrington,D.J. (2002). Pattern searches for the identification of putative lipoprotein genes in Gram-positive bacterial genomes. Microbiology, 148(Pt 7), 2065-2077.

Ventura, M., Canchaya, C., Fitzgerald, G. F., Gupta, R. S. and van Sinderen, D. (2006) Genomics as a means to understand bacterial phylogeny and ecological adaptation: the case of bifidobacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Oct 26 (Epub) [Abstract]

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