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A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Sept 2007
Zhaxybayeva Olga, Gogarten J Peter, Doolittle W Ford
Abstract excerpt
An ORF (encoding a hyperconserved protein of unknown function) in Prochlorococcus/marine Synechococcus genomes that is 100% conserved on the amino acid level but lacks homologs outside this group is described here. Such conservation of an uncharacterized group-specific gene is unusual, and unexpected given the extensive genomic divergence of this group at other loci. Comparative analyses indicate that the...
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