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Evolution of NMDA receptor cytoplasmic interaction domains: implications for organisation of synaptic signalling complexes

Tomás J Ryan1* email, Richard D Emes1,2* email, Seth GN Grant1 email and Noboru H Komiyama1 email

Genes to Cognition Program, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, School of Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9:6doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-6

Published: 15 January 2008

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Additional file 1:

Smith-Waterman Alignment of Mouse NR2B C-terminal Exon Nucleotide Sequence against D. melanogaster C-terminal 2857 Nucleotide Intron. Mouse exon sequence named 'NR2B', D. melanogaster intron sequence named 'intron'.

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FoldIndex Comparison of NR2 C-terminal Domain Folding Propensity. Plot of AA sequence of N-terminus (N) to C-terminus (C) of mouse NR2C and NR2D against probability of folding. Green areas are predicted to be intrinsically folded, red areas are predicted to be intrinsically unfolded.

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PSIPRED Secondary Structure Predictions of Mouse NR2C & NR2D C-terminal Domains. Green barrels represent alpha helices while yellow arrows signify beta sheets. Prediction confidence represented by blue bars.

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Unrooted Phylogenetic Tree of NR2 Subunits. Human (Hs), mouse (Mm), rat (Rm), zebrafish (Dr), ciona (Ci), Drosophila (Dm), C. elegans (Ce). Bootstrap values are shown at branch points.

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