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Figure 4 Amino acid sequence alignment of eel fucolectins and other related proteins. The black shading in upper seven lines indicates the residues conserved among eel fucolectins (eFL-1–7). Similarities between eel fucolectins and the related proteins tachylectin-4 (TL-4, accession no. AB005542), Xenopus pentraxin 1 (XL-PXN, L19881), and Drosophila furrowed protein (D-FW, accession no. AE003487-48; see “Discussion”) and its homologue (D-CG9095, accession no.AE003498-6) are represented by the gray boxes in lower four lines. Gaps are introduced to obtain maximal sequence alignment. Numbers to the left andright refer to the first and last amino acid residues on the lines. eFL-1–3 are isolated from the liver and eFL-4–7, from the gill. A data base search also identified a partial sequence of a rainbow trout homologue with a 63% similarity (T23111) in the GenBank™ Expressed Sequence Tag data base. The BLAST and MOTIF programs were used to search the GenBank™ data base at the NCBI web site. Image published in: Honda S et al. (2000) Copyright © 2000. Image reproduced with permission of the publisher and the copyright holder. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Larger Image Printer Friendly View

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