Table 5.

Examples of lateral gene transfer with amoeba-resisting bacteria.

Gene	Function	Partners of LGT	References
legS2	Sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase	L. pneumoniae-Protist	Degtyar et al., 2009
dhcR7, dwf	7-dehydrocholesterol reductase	Legionellae-Amoeba	Moliner et al., 2009; Thomas and Greub, 2010
tlc, ntt	ADP/ATP translocase, Nucleotides transporter	Chlamydiales-Rickettsiales-Plants	Greub and Raoult, 2003; Linka et al., 2003; Schmitz-Esser et al., 2004
ralF	Sec7 domain-containing protein	Eukaryota-Legionella-Rickettsia	Cox et al., 2004
tra	Type IV secretion system	Unknown-Rickettsia Proteobacteria-Chlamydiales	Gillespie et al., 2010; Greub et al., 2004a