Abstract
The PD-(D/E)XK superfamily of deoxyribonucleases (ENases) comprises restriction endonucleases, exonucleases and nicking enzymes, which share a common fold and the architecture of the active site. Their extreme divergence generally hampers identification of novel members based solely on sequence comparisons. Here we report a remote similarity between the phage lambda exonuclease (lambda-exo), branching out early in the evolutionary history of ENases (3), with the family of alkaline exonucleases (AE) encoded by various viruses infecting higher Eukaryota. The predicted structural compatibility and the conservation of the functionally important residues between AE and ENases strongly suggest a distant evolutionary relationship between these proteins. According to the results of extensive sequence database mining, sequence/structure threading and molecular modeling it is plausible that the AE proteins with lambda-exo and some other putative phage-encoded exonucleases form a distinct subfamily of PD-(D/E)XK ENases. The phylogenetic history of this subfamily is inferred using sequence alignment and distance matrix methods.
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