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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Biochimie. 2015 Jan 9;118:302–312. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.01.004

Table 1.

Uncharacterized ancestral arCOGs that include predicted membrane proteins.

arCOG Related
arCOGs
Number
of TMs
Presence/absence pattern in major lineagesa
Prediction/comment
Desulfu-
rococci
Sulfo-
lobi
Thermo-
protei
Thaumar-
chaeota
Korar-
chaeota
Archaeog-
lobi
Halo-
bacteria
Methano-
bacteria
Methan-
ococci
Methano-
microbia
Thermo-
cocci
Thermo-
plasmata
Nanoar-
chaeota
02673 07287
08873
3,4 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Sec system component, YidC ortholog (see Fig. 1);
01994 01995
01996
05021
3 or 6 p 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 Putative membrane remodeling system component (see Fig. 3);
Many archaea have multiple paralogs
02177 02178 7 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 Putative membrane remodeling system component (see Fig. 3)
01314 2 p p p 1 1 p p p p 1 Putative secretion system component (see Fig. 2,Table 2)
02884 02886
02887
11424
2 or 4 p p p p p p p p P p Putative secretion system component (see Fig. 2,Table 2)
00899 00901
00903
00902
00898
7–9 p p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p Flippase involved in the protein glycosylation pathways; many archaea have multiple paralogs
02245 6–14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p Cytidylyltransferase family enzyme involved in lipid metabolism
04002 08353
11324
2,3 p p 1 p p P p Cytochrome b superfamily, possibly involved in electron transfer as a component of redox complexes; expanded in several Thermococci
02078 2 1 1 1 1 P Possibly involved in electron transfer as a component of redox complexes;
03427 03426 4,5 p p 1 P p Transporter; expansion in Thermococci
02008 4 1 1 1 1 p p 1 1 Transporter component
04354 12 p p 1 1 P Transporter
04469 11 p 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 Transporter
02159 7 p 1 p 1 1 p p No prediction; expansion in Methanomicrobia
03206 03207
05723
8–10 1 p 1 1 Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis
a

Complete phyletic patterns are provided in the Supplementary Table 2.

The patterns are abbreviated as follows:–, absent in the vast majority of the respective genomes; p, partially present, and 1, present in the vast majority of genomes.