Roles of Protein Synthesis Elongation Factor EF-Tu in Heat Tolerance in Plants

Figure 2

The alignment of EF-Tu amino acid sequences. The alignment was conducted based on MULTALIN (http://multalin.toulouse.inra.fr/multalin/multalin.html). The chloroplast targeting sequence was predicted based on Emanuelsson et al. ([31], http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ChloroP/) and then removed before the alignment. Rice (GenBank accession no. AAF15312), Arabidopsis (NP193769), and E. coli (AAA50993). The identities and similarities were calculated based on BLASTP (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=blastp&BLAST_PROGRAMS=blastp&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&SHOW_DEFAULTS=on&BLAST_SPEC=blast2seq&LINK_LOC=blasttab&LAST_PAGE=blastn&BLAST_INIT=blast2seq).