Two fusion events were detected in V. carteri. The first fused protein
(XP_002957696.1) was found to have a domain organization that
corresponded to the domain organization of the split C. reinhardtii proteins
alpha 1,2 mannosidase (IPR001382, Fig. 1A), an enzyme implicated
in the processing of Asn-linked oligosaccharides (Lal et al., 1994)and
shown to have lytic activity on harmful marine microalgae and
Fra10Ac1 (IPR019129), a protein of nuclear localization and unknown
function in Homo sapiens, found expressed in the human brain, heart,
skeletal muscle, kidney and liver (Sarafidou et al., 2004). Similar split
protein pairs were also detected in O. lucimarinus, C. variabilis,
T. pseudonana and P. tricornutum. It should be noted here that all