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Seven members of the filament-like plant protein ( FPP ) family are present in the Arabidopsis genome, and one homolog each has been identified from tomato and rice.
In B. subtilis , disruption of LytE (Cw1F) and LytF (Cw1E) causes the normally rod-shaped cells to assume a long filament-like morphology as a result of defective cell-wall separation during cell division [ 18, 19, 22].
The protein was named LeFPP for tomato filament-like plant protein.
A BLAST search with the pAD-LeFPP open reading frame indicated that it represents a novel protein with weak similarity to filament-like proteins from animals and yeast (see below).
In a protein BLAST, sequences with highest scores represented a number of uncharacterized open reading frames in the Arabidopsis genome, followed by sequences for animal filament-like proteins such as myosin, kinesin, ankyrin, etc.