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Fourteen conserved indels (i.e. inserts or deletions) have been identified in 10 widely distributed proteins that appear to be characteristic of cyanobacterial species and are not found in any other group of bacteria. These signatures include three inserts of 6, 7 and 28 aa in the DNA helicase II (UvrD) protein, an 18–21 aa insert in DNA polymerase I, a 14 aa insert in the enzyme ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, a 3 aa insert in the FtsH protein, an 11–13 aa insert in phytoene synthase, a 5 aa insert in elongation factor-Tu, two deletions of 2 and 7 aa in ribosomal S1 protein, a 2 aa insert in the SecA protein, a 1 aa deletion and a 6 aa insert in the enzyme inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase and a 1 aa deletion in the major sigma factor. These signatures, which are flanked by conserved regions, provide molecular markers for distinguishing cyanobacterial taxa from all other bacteria and they should prove helpful in the identification of cyanobacterial species, simply on the basis of the presence or absence of these markers in the corresponding proteins. The signatures in six of these proteins (SecA, elongation factor-Tu, ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, phytoene synthase, FtsH and ribosomal S1 protein) are also commonly present in plastid homologues from plants and algae (chlorophytes, chromophytes and rhodophytes), indicating their specific relationship to cyanobacteria and supporting their endosymbiotic origin from these bacteria. In phylogenetic trees based on a number of these proteins (SecA, UvrD, DNA polymerase I, elongation factor-Tu) that were investigated, the available cyanobacterial homologues grouped together with high affinity (>95 % bootstrap value), supporting the view that the cyanobacterial phylum is monophyletic and that the identified signatures were introduced in a common ancestor of this group.

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