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. 2014 Aug 13;5:421. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00421

Table 3.

Genomes with unusual smpB content.

smpB Strain tmID
BACTERIAL STRAINS WITH PSEUDOGENIZED, FRAMESHIFTED OR TRUNCATED smpB
Pseudogene Hodgkinia cicadicola TETUND1* 19190
Truncation Tremblaya princeps PCIT* 12215
Truncation Tremblaya princeps PCVAL* 12077
Frameshift Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis 31 11952
Frameshift Mycobacterium intracellulare MOTT-2 19171
Frameshift Clostridium difficile CF5 10063
Frameshift Clostridium difficile M120 15031
Frameshift Buchnera aphidicola BCc* 15428
Frameshift Buchnera aphidicola str. TLW03* 12194
Frameshift Pectobacterium carotovorum PCC21 16329
Frameshift Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans ANH9381 19118
Frameshift Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E 10352
Frameshift Simiduia agarivorans SA1 19172
Frameshift Mycoplasma pneumoniae FH 16792
Frameshift Thermotoga maritima MSB8 12964
Frameshift Petrotoga mobilis SJ95 13623
smpBs IN BACTERIAL PLASMIDS
Flavobacterium sp. KI723T1 plasmid pOAD2 (2 copies) 19173
smpBs IN EUKARYOTIC GENOME PROJECTS
Contaminant Cucumis sativus 19176
Contaminant Ceratitis capitata 19177
Endosymbiont Trichoplax adhaerens 19178
Chromatophore Paulinella chromatophora 19174
Oomycete mito.-targeted Albugo laibachii Nc14gi 19187
Oomycete mito.-targeted Phytophthora infestans T304 19188
Oomycete mito.-targeted Phytophthora sojae 19189
Algal plastid-targeted Nannochloropsis gaditana CCMP526 19175
Algal plastid-targeted Guillardia theta CCMP2712 19179
Algal plastid-targeted Phaeodactylum tricornutum CCAP 1055/1 19180
Algal plastid-targeted Thalassiosira pseudonana CCMP1335 19181
Algal plastid-targeted Aureococcus anophagefferens 19182
Algal plastid-targeted Callosobruchus chinensis 19183
Algal plastid-targeted Cyanidioschyzon merolae 19184
Algal plastid-targeted Ectocarpus siliculosus 19185
Algal plastid-targeted Thalassiosira oceanica 19186

Includes links to webpages for bacterial strains with defective smpBs, bacterial plasmids with smpBs, and smpBs in eukaryotic genome projects (some of which are organelle-targeted). The Hodgkinia genome pseudogene has accumulated two premature stop codons in smpB. The two “truncation” cases have lost material reaching into the β-barrel at each end. We also note that SmpB lacks the central loop in the hemoplasmas, Carsonella and Hodgkinia, and lacks the C-terminal α helix in Carsonella, but these SmpBs retain all β strand segments and may therefore retain weak function. tmID is the tmRNA Website (http://bioinformatics.sandia.gov/tmrna) identifier.

*

Highly reduced genome (<106 bp).

The description of this genome (Pérez-Brocal et al., 2006) noted and discussed this frameshift, suggesting confidence in the gene sequence; any of the other frameshifts could instead be sequencing errors.