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In the latter lineage, it was exapted to function as an intracellular enzyme, probably due to the similarity in structure of GSP and the ancestral extracellular substrate, namely the peptidoglycan peptides.
They appear to represent a case where a host enzyme has been exapted (re-used) by a virus for penetrating the bacterial cell wall.