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We have chosen to illustrate this approach using the multifunctional family of DNA repair proteins, the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases (APEs), which have a clearly defined bacterial ancestor, E. coli exonuclease III (ExoIII), and are distantly related to several enzymes with varying substrate specificity.
Among the suggested sister groups were the Deinococcales [ 40 ] and spirochetes [ 41 42 ] . Our analyses do not support these earlier claims, but are in agreement with the recent analyses of genes involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis [ 43 ] , which indicated that the low GC Gram positive heliobacteria are closest to the last common ancestor of all oxygenic photosynthetic lineages.
By comparison, measuring the realized niche requires a head-to-head test of fitness with the ancestor.
Although the cores of the two DDRP subunits are homologous and are likely to have evolved from a common ancestor (see discussion below), they have completely different sets of conserved residues and contribute distinct moieties to the catalytic cleft (Figs.
Only one of the 12 populations (Ara+3) retained a level of resistance comparable to that of the ancestor, and two other populations (Ara-3 and Ara+5) were intermediately sensitive.