Figure 1

Multiple sequence alignment of the C-terminal domain of the Tic62 protein family from vascular plants. The multiple sequence alignment shows the FNR-binding domain in vascular plants (residues 387–534 in psTic62). Three repetitive motifs, S-P-Y-x (2)-Y-x-D/E-L-K-P (2)-S/T/A-S/T-P-S/T-P, involved in the binding of FNR [12] are highly conserved within the family. A fourth repetition found just in Arabidopsis sequence is marked in a box. The pea (PISSA), Arabidopsis thaliana (ARATH) and Oryza sativa (ORYSA) sequences were retrieved from GenBank. The sequences from tomato (LYCES), Glycine max (GLYMA), Medicago truncatula (MEDTR) and Triticum aestivum (TRIAE) were identified in dbEST and retrieved from plantGDB. The representation of the alignment is the standard from the ClustalX program [43].