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At least one novel gene, the CG2222 -like gene D. willistoni , is likely to have originated from a retrotransposition event as this gene lacks introns while its closest homolog, found on a different chromosome arm in the D. melanogaster genome, has two introns.
A fused GSHA-ATP-grasp superfamily homolog in an odd collection of bacteria
This family of proteins is distant homolog of yeast protein SacI [ 33 ] . The SacI homology domain is most notably found at the amino terminal of the inositol 5'-phosphatase synaptojanin.
These included the obvious - MCAM (melanoma cell adhesion molecule) - but also ATP1B2 (ATPase, Na +/K +transporting, beta 2 polypeptide, which is believed to function in neuron-astrocyte adhesion [ 29, 30]), THBS (thrombospondin, an adhesion molecule involved in blood clotting), OPN (osteopontin, which promotes osteoclast adhesion [ 31]) and OSF2 (osteoblast-specific factor 2, a human homolog of the insect protein fasciclin thought to have a role in bone adhesion [ 32]).
Together with the L-threonine aldolase homolog candidate, these three genes are found within 257 kb of each other, a distance that represents only 3.65% of the M. loti chromosome, which is less than half the size of the symbiosis island.