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Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msg129
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Accepted March 11, 2003
© 2003 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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The Molecular Evolution of Catalatic Hydroperoxidases: Evidence for Multiple Lateral Transfer of Genes between Prokaryota and from Bacteria into Eukaryota

Martin G. Klotz 1* Peter C. Loewen 2

1 Department of Biology and Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY40292, U.S.A.
2 Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, CAN

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: martin.klotz{at}louisville.edu.


  Abstract

The last decade has produced an increasing number of reports on horizontal gene transfer between prokaryotic organisms. Only recently, with the flood of available whole genome sequence data and a renewed intensity of the debate about the universal tree of life, a very few reports on lateral gene transfer (LGT) from prokaryotes into the Eukaryota have been published. We have investigated and report here on the molecular evolution of the gene families that encode catalatic hydroperoxidases. We have found that this process included frequent horizontal gene transfer among prokaryotes but also several lateral gene transfer events between bacteria and fungi and bacteria and the protistan ancestor of the alga/plant lineage.

Key Words: Catalase, catalase-peroxidase, non-heme catalase, lateral gene transfer


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