Diversity of Eukaryotic Translational Initiation Factor eIF4E in Protists

Figure 6

Comparison of the sequences of selected nucleomorph eIF4Es. Alignment of the amino acid sequences of the eIF4E from the nucleomorphs of Guillardia theta, Haplogloia andersonii, and Cryptomonas paramecium. Amino acid sequences were aligned with T-coffee using the BLOSUM62MT scoring matrix in CLC Main Workbench. To facilitate comparison of the sequences, the residues conserved in Class I eIF4Es in multicellular organisms are indicated and numbered as in human eIF4E-1: W43, W46, W56, W73, W102, W113, W130, W166, and S209.