A new divergent type of eukaryotic methionine adenosyltransferase that has spread by gene transfer between secondary algae

Abstract

We show that some representatives of three distantly related eukaryotic lineages, dinoflagellates, haptophytes, and euglenids, possess a highly divergent type of MAT, which we call MATX.

Keywords

• Dinoflagellates
• euglenids
• haptophytes
• lateral gene transfer
• secondary endosymbiosis