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Table 1 Homology between and within the marsupial ELP and eutherian CTI peptides 1

From: The mammary gland-specific marsupial ELP and eutherian CTI share a common ancestral gene

Species comparisons

Signal peptide

Mature peptide

N-terminus

Kunitz motif2 (51 aa)

Kunitz motif1 (19 aa)

C-terminus

Marsupial ELP

85 - 95%

67.5 - 100%

59.1 - 100%

76.5 - 100%

84.2 - 100%

20 - 100%

Eutherian CTI

57.1 - 90.5%

70.7 - 88.6%

59.1 - 90.9%

76.5 - 94.1%

84.2- 100%

40 - 83.3%

Marsupial ELP vs Eutherian CTI

57.1 - 81.0%

44.6 - 62.2%

18.2 -59.1%

54.9 - 68.6%

63.2 - 73.7%

10 - 60%

  1. Pairwise amino acids similarities were calculated using MatGAT 2.01 (BLOSUM62 matrix).
  2. 1Refer to Additional file 4: Tables S3 for individual species comparisons.