Table 2.
Proteins that are Specific for the Phylum Bacteroidetes
| Protein Name | Accession No. | Length | Possible/Predicted Function | Comments |
| PG0202 | NP_904537 | 165 | Uroporphyrinogen-III synthase HemD, putative; COG1587, HemD; pfam02602, HEM4 | Missing in S. ruber+ |
| PG0362 | NP_904673 | 722 | Hypothetical | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG0399 | NP_904705 | 156 | Putative lipoprotein | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG0448 | NP_904748 | 434 | Toluene × outer membrane/transport protein (OMPP1/FadL/TodX); pfam03349 | All species present |
| PG0449 | NP_904749 | 441 | TPR domain protein; cd00189, TPR; COG3071, HemY; COG4783, Putative Zn-dependent protease | Not found in F. johnsoniae and C. hutchinsonii |
| PG0482 | NP_904777 | 143 | Hypothetical protein | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG0621 | NP_904906 | 182 | Hypothetical protein | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG0779 | NP_905041 | 157 | ExbD, Biopolymer transport protein; COG0848 | Not found in F. bacterium HTC, F. johnsoniae and C. hutchinsonii |
| PG1281 | NP_905462 | 387 | Putative DNA mismatch repair protein; pfam01713, Smr; COG1193, Mismatch repair ATPase | Not found in C. atlanticus and S. ruber+ |
| PG1367 | NP_905532 | 200 | Hypothetical protein | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG1394 | NP_905555 | 165 | Putative trans-membrane | Missing in S. ruber |
| PG1626 | NP_905755 | 554 | Putative hemin receptor | Missing in C. hutchinsonii; also present in C. phaeobacteriodes. |
| PG1679 | NP_905797 | 464 | Putative trans-membrane | Not found in P. ruminicola and C. hutchinsonii |
| PG1850 | NP_905940 | 302 | Hypothetical protein | Missing in Bacteroides species+ |
| PG2066 | NP_906128 | 351 | Putative lipoprotein | Missing in P. ruminicola and C. hutchinsonii |
| PG2092 | NP_906153 | 419 | Hypothetical protein | Missing in Bacteroides species |
| BF0296 | YP_097579 | 988 | Outer membrane assembly protein | Missing in P. gingivalis and S. ruber+ |
| BF0439 | YP_097722 | 565 | Putative outer membrane protein probably involved in nutrient binding | Missing in P. gingivalis, and Tenacibaculum |
| BF0534 | YP_097817 | 192 | Putative acetyl-transferase | Missing in P. gingivalis, C. atlanticus and S. ruber |
| BF0665 | YP_097947 | 531 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF0751 | YP_098036 | 577 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, P. torquis, R. biformata and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF1057 | YP_098341 | 506 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF1254 | YP_098538 | 507 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF1327 | YP_098610 | 514 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF3185 | YP_100464 | 490 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis, and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF3612 | YP_100889 | 542 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis and C. hutchinsonii |
| BF4330 | YP_101602 | 538 | Putative exported protein | Missing in P. gingivalis,, R. biformata and C. hutchinsonii |
For the proteins listed here, all significant blast hits are from various Bacteroidetes species, except as noted below. These proteins are present in all of the Bacteroidetes species listed in Table 1, except as noted in the comments.
+For the protein PG0202, a significant hit is also observed from C. phaeobacteroides; For BF0296 significant hits also observed from P. aestuarii and C. phaeobacteroides.
Of the proteins listed here, the following proteins are homologous to each other: BF0751, BF1057, BF1327, BF3185; BF1254, BF3612, BF4330.