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This suggests that, at some stage in their evolution, the Bacillus recT gene protein has recombined with the gene coding for SSB, which might even have resulted in a functional replacement of an SSB with an SSAP.
Practically all members of the RecT/Redβ superfamily are single-domain proteins showing extended similarity to each other throughout their globular regions.
The similarity between these two systems is further extended by the observation that the RecT/E system can complement mutations in the λ exo/Redβ system [ 10 12 ] . In eukaryotes, RAD52 protein has been shown to exhibit properties similar to those of RecT and Redβ proteins: it binds ssDNA and promotes strand exchange via the pairing of complementary single strands [ 6 13 ] . In vitro studies on quaternary structures have shown that the single strand annealing proteins (SSAPs), RecT, Redβ, ERF and RAD52, form similar helical super-structures [ 14 15 16 17 ] . This has led to the proposal that RecT, Redβ, ERF and the eukaryotic RAD52 function in an analogous fashion, and even are "structural homologs" [ 14 ] .
The alternative explanation, namely that the gene coding for the common ancestor of the Redβ and RecT already co-occurred with the sbcC gene is far less likely because it would require over 10 independent losses of this, apparently, functionally advantageous organization in different bacterial and bacteriophage lineages.
This suggests that in each of these cases a RecT superfamily gene was inserted in frame into a pre-existing ERF gene leaving behind only a non-functional fragment of it (Fig.
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