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We have used PSI-BLAST to find orthologs of enzymes that use glutathione (including glutaredoxins, glutathione- S -transferases, glutathione reductases and glutathione peroxidases) in both bacteria and eukaryotes (data not shown).
BLM shares the most identity in the helicase domain to the mouse and Xenopus orthologs [ 4, 5, 6], to a predicted C. elegans protein CAB05609 [ 7], and to D. melanogaster dmBLM [ 8].
Probable orthologs were operationally defined as bidirectional best hits between proteins from two genomes [ 23].
At the core of such approaches stands therefore the distinction between orthologs and paralogs, and hence the ability to discriminate between duplication and speciation events on a gene tree.
These proteins comprise a small family whose members have not been functionally characterized and are evidently specific to animals because putative orthologs are not present in available fungi and plant sequence databases.