Evolutionary Remodelling of the Cell Envelope in Bacteria of the Planctomycetes Phylum

A bioinformatics and experimental study about the cell wall in bacteria of Planctomycetes phylum. Bacteria of Planctomycetes phylum show unique cell division processes and are able to engulf large molecules and one species is even able to egulf other bacteria. Due to such unique abilites and lack of genes for peptidoglycan, it has been a topic of debate whether these bacteria do or do not have the usual bacterial cell wall formed by peptidoglycan polymers. Here we have provided a data set of the protein fasta files of the genomes used for the comparative analysis in the study. The gene prediction of the older genomes were redone using prodigal to get a consistent and reliable gene prediction quality. Here we have uploaded the fasta files with newly predicted protein sequences and new protein IDs for each genome.