Coevolution of aah: A dps-Like Gene with the Host Bacterium Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analysis

Table 1

Reported Dps-like proteins and their proposed functions.

Name	Species	MW (kd)	DNA binding	Iron binding	Proposed function^a	References
TpF1 (4D)	Treponema pallidum	19			Antigen	[3]
Dps	Escherichia coli	19	Yes	Yes		[1]
MrgA	Bacillus subtilis	16	Yes	Yes		[17]
DpsA	Synechococcus sp.	19.7				[26]
FtpA	Haemophilus ducreyi	24			Laminin binding	[25]
Flp	Listeria innocua	18		Yes		[18]
Flp	Listeria monocytogenes	18			Cold shock protein	[20]
NapA	Helicobacter pylori	17	No	Yes	Cell adhesion	[22, 23, 27]
Dpr	Streptococcus mutans	19.7		Yes		[28, 29]
Dpr	Streptococcal suis	19.6	No	Yes	Galactose adhesion	[30]
Dps	Bacteroides fragilis	17.9				[31]
Dlp-1	Bacillus anthracis	16.9	No	Yes		[10]
Dlp-2	Bacillus anthracis	16.7	No	Yes		[10]
MrgA	Staphylococcus aureus	16.7				[32]
Dps	Campylobacter jejuni	17.3	No	Yes		[33]
Dps1	Mycobacterium smegmatis	21.6	Yes	Yes		[34, 35]
Dps2	Mycobacterium smegmatis	17.8	Yes	Yes		[36]
Dps	Agrobacterium tumefaciens	18.6	No	Yes		[6]
Dps	Bacillus brevis	16.3	Yes	Yes		[11]
Dps	Porphyromonas gingivalis	19				[37]
Dps	Proteus vulgaris					[38]
Dps	Serratia marcescens					[38]
Dps	Salmonella enterica					[38]
Dps	Klebsiella pneumoniae					[38]
Dps	Enterobacter cloacae					[38]
Dps	Citrobacter freundii					[38]
AAH	Microbacterium arborescens	17.1	No	Yes	Reversible hydrolysis	[39]
Dps1	Deinococcus radiodurans	23.0	Yes	Yes		[40]
Dps2	Deinococcus radiodurans	26.1	Yes	Yes		[41]
Dps	Nostoc sp.	20.1	No	Yes		[42]

Blank means no report. ^aProposed function other than oxidative detoxification, iron oxidation, and storage.