Ancient origin of the biosynthesis of lignin precursors

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Table 2 Distribution of lignin biosynthesis genes in non-archaeplastid genomes

Footnote = + Present in both genome sequence and EST library, +^E Present in EST library only, +^G Present in genome sequence only. Presence (+) is determined by a reciprocal BLASTP hit with an E-value < 1x10^-30 or less using the characterized land plant A. thaliana or S. moellendorffii gene as a query, searching the NCBI, JGI, OIST Marine Genomics Unit (http://marinegenomics.oist.jp/genomes/gallery/) and Paramecium (http://paramecium.cgm.cnrs-gif.fr/) databases. The abbreviations used for the enzyme can be described as follows: phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL); cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H); 4-coumarate:CoA ligase (4CL); cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR); cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD); p-hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA (HCT); p-coumarate 3-hydroxylase (C3H); caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT); caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase (CCoAMT); ferulate 5-hydroxylase (F5H); caffeoyl shikimate esterase (CSE) and Selaginella moelledorfii F5H (smF5H); peroxidase (PER); and laccase (LAC).

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