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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: Parasitology. 2010 Sep 30;138(3):267–278. doi: 10.1017/S0031182010001277

Table-1.

Lipids and Fatty Acid Metabolic Genes Annotated in GS, WB and P15 Isolates in Giardia

Classification Homologues NCBI Accession Number GiardiaDB ORF
50803 (WB) 50581 (GS) 50803 (WB P15
Phospholipid PI Synthase/CDP-DAG-inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase (gPIS) XP_001707169 831 9829 1650
PI transfer protein alpha isoform (PITPα) XP_001705528 3968 4197 2564
PGP synthase/CDP-DAG-glycerol-3-phosphate-3- phosphatidyltransferase (gPGPS) XP_001707005 4006 7529 1650
PS decarboxylase (gPSD) XP_001707910 1294 16495 5211
PS synthase (gPSS) XP_001707737 928 17427 660
Phospholipid-transporting ATPase IA, putative (gPLTATPase 1A) XP_001704967, XP_001710085 177, 3570 8182, 16958, 10019 2350, 2846, 1870
Phospholipid-transporting ATPase IIB, putative (gPLTATPase IIB) XP_001704293, XP_001707954 900, 2201 137725, 101810, 38104 2493, 1733
Fatty Acid 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyl transferase (gAGPAT4) XP_001704656 7126
gAGPAT3 XP_001704595 2692
gAGPAT2 XP_001707326 12109
Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase, putative (gLPAAT) XP_001707002 4004 14403 1652
Fatty acid elongase 1 (gFAELO) XP_001708101 2228 92729 536
Long chain fatty acid CoA ligase 5 (gLCFACL5) XP_001705891, XP_001705009, XP_001706424, XP_001707853 2104, 2579, 2829, 3493 9062, 2118, 15063, 17170 2620, 2964, 109, 5157
Long chain fatty acid CoA ligase 4 (gLCFACL5) XP_001708520 3754 30476 1330
Long chain fatty acid CoA ligase, putative (gLCFACL) XP_001709411 113892 4443
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (gACC)/pyruvate carboxylase fusion protein, putative XP_001705655 1829 113021 184
Sterol Lecithin-cholesterol acyl transferase, putative (gLCCAT) XP_001705338, XP_001706263 1681, 4525 5746, 16286 297, 1123
Neutral Lipid Phospholipase B (gPLB) XP_001704922, XP_001709220 128, 380 93548, 17277 2398, 711, 1744
Sphingolipids Ceramide glucosyltransferase (gGlcT1) XP_001704299 2206 11642 1728
Acid sphingomyelinase-like phosphodiesterase 3b (gASMase) XP_001709364, XP_001705202 370, 4397 16737, 8360 757, 809
Serine palmitoyltransferase-1(gSPT1) XP_001707207 798 23015 2116
Serine palmitoyltransferase-2 (gSPT2) XP_001704960 1960 14374 1863
Signaling Lipids Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate 3-phosphatase (gPI3Pase) XP_001709198 1218 16728 1550
Type II inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase precursor (gITP5Pase) XP_001705945 3898 14787 3004
Inositol 5-phosphatase 4 (gI5Pase) XP_001709238 146 9077 363
Phosphoinositide-3-kinase, class 3 (gPI3K) XP_001708644 2073 17406 3357
PI-3-kinase, catalytic, alpha polypeptide (gPI3Kα) XP_001709235 144 14855 361
Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase, putative (gPI4P5K) XP_001709292, XP_001705538 XP_001707008, XP_001705604, XP_001709854, XP_001710017 649, 950, 1909, 3977, 4008, 4088 14628, 24712, 7261, 2622, 13606, 11897 2573, 606, 2900, 1648, 4395, 2048
PI-4-kinase (gPI4K) XP_001706660 1085 16558 1075
Phosphatidylinositol-glycan biosynthesis, class O protein (gPIG) XP_001709629 1892 14975 2782