Table 4

Comparison of replacements among bacteria with pepsin homologues

Family

Shewanella

amazonensis

Shewanella

loihica

Shewanella

sediminis

Colwellia

psychrerythraea

Sinorhizobium

medicae

Marinomonas sp.

MWYL1


A1 (pepsin)

55.5

42.4

43.6

41.3

17.1

15.5

A8 (signal peptidase 2)

70.8

72.4

67.6

48.3

35.8

46.4

S16 (endpeptidase Clp)

89.0

90.9

89.9

78.1

61.6

67.2


The protein sequences from Shewanella denitrificans were compared with orthologous protein sequences from other bacteria. Sequences were aligned with Muscle [30] and percentage identities calculated using Alistat http://hmmer.janelia.org/ webcite.

Rawlings and Bateman BMC Genomics 2009 10:437   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-437

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