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In contrast, the Bro-N domain was more widely distributed, occurring in a stand-alone form or combined with other domains in proteins from temperate phages that infect Gram-positive bacteria and Myxococcus xanthus , and proteins encoded in the genomes of proteobacteria and Gram-positive bacteria.
The sporadic distribution of the RecT and Redβ family proteins in bacterial genomes and their presence in phages suggest that these proteins ultimately are of phage origin and have been co-opted by the bacterial DNA recombination/repair systems.
Consistent with this hypothesis, these proteins include antirepressors from phages such as BPP22, BPVT2 and BP933W.
Such phyletic patterns, together with the presence of members of this family in genomes of phages and prophages, suggests that lateral transfer was involved in the dissemination of some of these orthologous groups.
However, both the FCA and the G+C content analyses suggest that IS and phages are less biased in their base composition than other LTGs.