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  • Global extent of horizontal gene transfer. Abstract Text:

    in-geol choiIn-Geol Choi,sung-hou kimSung-Hou Kim,

    Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is thought to play an important role in the evolution of species and innovation of genomes. There have been many convincing evidences for HGT for specific genes or gene families, but there has been no estimate of the global extent of HGT. Here, we present a method of identifying HGT events within a given protein family and estimate the global extent of HGT in all curated protein domain families ( approximately 8,000) listed in the Pfam database. The results suggest four conclusions: (i) for all protein domain families in Pfam, the fixation of genes horizontally transferred is not a rampant phenomenon between organisms with substantial phylogenetic separations (1.1-9.7% of Pfam families surveyed at three taxonomic ranges studied show indication of HGT); (ii) however, at the level of domains, >50% of Archaea have one or more protein domains acquired by HGT, and nearly 30-50% of Bacteria did the same when examined at three taxonomic ranges. But, the equivalent value for Eukarya is <10%; (iii) HGT will have very little impact in the construction of organism phylogeny, when the construction methods use whole genomes, large numbers of common genes, or SSU rRNAs; and (iv) there appears to be no strong preference of HGT for protein families of particular cellular or molecular functions.

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    ig choiIG Choi,sh kimSH Kim,

    For similar nucleic acids, nucleotides, and nucleosides: nucleic acids: rna: rna, ribosomal research abstracts see: nucleic acids, nucleotides, and nucleosides: nucleic acids: rna: rna, ribosomal research

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    PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, N.I.H., Extr

    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of

    VOLUME: 104

    Page Numbers: 4489-94

    Journal Abbreviation: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

    ISSN: 0027-8424

    DAY: 7

    MONTH: 03

    YEAR: 2007

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    LANGUAGE: eng

    NlmUniqueID: 7505876

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    KEYWORDS: RNA, Ribosomal

    MESH TERMS: chemistry

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    Substance Name: RNA, Ribosomal

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    AFFILIATION: Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

    Country: United States

    United States Research PublicationUnited States Research Publication

    AGENCY: United States NIGMS

    GRANT: GM 62412

    ACRONYM: GM

    MEDLINETA: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

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