HHsearch alignment for GI: 255764490 and conserved domain: TIGR03297

>TIGR03297 Ppyr-DeCO2ase phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase. This family consists of examples of phosphonopyruvate an decarboxylase enzyme that produces phosphonoacetaldehyde (Pald), the second step in the biosynthesis phosphonate-containing compounds. Since the preceding enzymate step, PEP phosphomutase (AepX, TIGR02320) favors the substrate PEP energetically, the decarboxylase is required to drive the reaction in the direction of phosphonate production. Pald is a precursor of natural products including antibiotics like bialaphos and phosphonothricin in Streptomyces species, phosphonate-modified molecules such as the polysaccharide B of Bacteroides fragilis, the phosphonolipids of Tetrahymena pyroformis, the glycosylinositolphospholipids of Trypanosoma cruzi. This gene generally occurs in prokaryotic organisms adjacent to the gene for AepX. Most often an aminotansferase (aepZ) is also present which leads to the production of the most common phosphonate compound, 2-aminoethylphosphonate (A
Probab=98.09  E-value=8.1e-06  Score=57.42  Aligned_cols=117  Identities=22%  Similarity=0.312  Sum_probs=76.8

Q ss_pred             CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC--CCHHHHHHHHHHHHCC-CHHHHHHHCCCCCCCCCCC
Q ss_conf             123676674667674325431001123344443310256654--3024567654432114-0111022103434444432
Q gi|255764490|r  151 NGFYGGHGIVGAQVSLGTGIAFANKYRRSDKICVVCFGDGAA--NQGQVYESFNIAALWN-LNVIYVIENNQYAMGTSVS  227 (364)
Q Consensus       151 ~~~~~~~~~vg~~~p~A~G~A~a~k~~~~~~v~v~~~GDGa~--~eG~f~Ealn~A~~~~-lPvifvvenN~~aist~~~  227 (364)
T Consensus       215 ~~F~-~vG~MG~as~ialG~al~~----~~~~Vi~lDGDGs~LMh~Gs----lati~~~~~~Nl~hivlnN~~h~SvGgQ  285 (361)
T TIGR03297       215 RDFL-TVGSMGHASQIALGLALAR----PDQRVVCLDGDGAALMHMGG----LATIGTQGPANLIHVLFNNGAHDSVGGQ  285 (361)
T ss_pred             CCEE-ECCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHC----CCCEEEEEECCHHHHHCCCH----HHHHHHCCCCCEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCC
T ss_conf             5357-3488514769999998628----89708999086899854406----8788743887479999828843255896


Q ss_pred             C-CCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHH-HHHHHCCHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCCCCCCCCEEEEECCC
Q ss_conf             3-21486435777776311-1121000023368875421024554546558983156
Q gi|255764490|r  228 R-ASAQTNFSKRGVSFNIP-GMQVDGMDIRAVKATMDKAVAYCRAHKGPIIIEMLTY  282 (364)
Q Consensus       228 ~-~~~~~~i~~ra~~~gi~-~~~vDG~D~~~v~~~~~~a~~~~r~~~gP~lie~~ty  282 (364)
T Consensus       286 pT~~~~idf~~iA~a~Gy~~~~~v~--~~~~l~~~l~----~~~~~~Gp~fi~v~i~  336 (361)
T TIGR03297       286 PTVSQHLDFAQIAKACGYAKVYEVS--TLEELETALT----AASSANGPRLIEVKVR  336 (361)
T ss_pred             CCCCCCCCHHHHHHHCCCCEEEEEC--CHHHHHHHHH----HHHHCCCCEEEEEEEC
T ss_conf             7777787999999975997499977--9999999999----9983899989999977