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The bacteriophage YRH proteins show no specific relationship with the RDRPs from any one eukaryotic lineage, arguing against a recent lateral transfer from eukaryotes to the phages.
Table 1shows the relative frequencies of the codons of isoleucine (I) and arginine (R) for all the native and transferred genes, IS, and phages for each species.
The eukaryotic RDRP is part of a large ensemble of functionally linked proteins, which include the Dicer helicase-nuclease, PIWI family proteins, the Hen-2/Corymbosa-like RNA methylase, AlkB-related RNA demethylases, and Lin28-like RNA-binding proteins [ 1 45 46 ] . Since no closely related homologs of any of these proteins are encoded in the genomes of the phages that encode YRH proteins, the latter are unlikely to function in a biological context similar to that of the eukaryotic RDRPs.
Thus, although bacterial genomes tend to acquire large amounts of DNA, we have shown that those transferred genes have very peculiar features that do not denote a previous genomic context but connect them with parasitic sequences such as phages.
Previously, the RecT proteins have been known from very few bacteria and Redβ has only been detected in λ and closely related phages.