Thirteen is enough: the myosins of Dictyostelium discoideum and their light chains

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Members of the myosin gene superfamily in D. discoideum.

Protein name	Gene name	Size in amino acids	Class	No. of introns	Chr.	Gene accession (GeneBank)^a	Protein accession (GenBank)^b	dictyBaseID (DDB...)	References
Myo1A	myoA	994	1	2	3	S73909 AAFI01000066	AAB20711 EAL67246	0215392	[27]
Myo1B	myoB	1111	1	2	5	M26037 AAFI01000196	AAA33229 EAL62866	0191351	[48]
Myo1C	myoC	1181	1	1	2	L35323 AAFI01000039	AAC37427 EAL69121	0215355	[49]
Myo1D	myoD	1113	1	2	2	L16509 AAFI01000030	P34109 EAL69474	0191347	[50]
Myo1E	myoE	1003	1	3	5	L06805 AAFI01000183	AAA33201 EAL63071	0216200	[51]
Myo1F	myoF	1071	1	1	5	AAFI01000198	EAL62822	0220021
Myo1G	myoK	858	1	2	2	AF090534 AAFI01000027	AAD47904 EAL70180	0185086	[52, 53]
MhcA	mhcA	2116	2	0	4	M11938 AAFI01000135	AAA33227 EAL64202	0191444	[54]
Myo5A	myoH	1771	5	3	5	AAFI01000209	EAL62703	0188441
Myo5B	myoJ	2249	5	2	2	U42409 AAFI01000020	AAA85186 EAL71208	0185050	[12, 13]
MyoG	myoG	3446	n.c.	3	2	AAFI01000034	EAL69262	0167014
MyoI	myoI	2357	n.c.	3	2	L35321 AAFI01000027	AAF06035 EAL70120	0185049	[11]
MyoM	myoM	1737	n.c.	2	6	AF090533 AAFI01000267	AAD47903 EAL61255	0191100	[53, 55]

a The upper numbers refer to the published cDNA derived sequences, the lower numbers to the genomic sequences.
b The upper numbers refer to the protein sequences translated from cDNA, the lower to the sequences translated from genomic DNA.

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