Research Article

Investigating the Chaperone Properties of a Novel Heat Shock Protein, Hsp70.c, from Trypanosoma brucei

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Phylogenetic analysis of Hsp70.c proteins from the TriTryps. Hsp70 amino acid accession numbers were obtained from GeneDB [41] and NCBI [42]. L. braziliensis Hsp70.c (GeneDB accession number LbrM.28.3030); L. infantum LiHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number LinJ.28.3040); LmHsp70.c; L. Mexicana LmeHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number LmxM.28.2820); L. tarantole LtHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number LtaP28.2840); T. b. gambiense TbgHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number Tbg972.11.12620); T. congolense TcoHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number TcIL3000.11.11940); TcHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number Tc00.1047053511211.220); LbHsp70 (GeneDB accession number LbrM.28.2990); LiHsp70 (GeneDB accession number LinJ.28.2950); TcHsp70A (GeneDB accession number Tc00.1047053511211.170); TcHsp70B (GeneDB accession number Tc00.1047053511211.160); LmHsp70A (GeneDB accession number LmjF28.2770); LmHsp70B (GeneDB accession number LmjF28.2780); LmeHsp70 (GeneDB accession number LmxM.28.2770); TbgHsp70 (GeneDB accession number Tbg972.11.12660); T. vivax Hsp70 (GeneDB accession number TvY486_0700470); TbHsp70 (GeneDB accession number Tb11.01.3110); TbHsp70.4 (GeneDB accession number Tb927.7.710); TbHsp110 (GeneDB accession number Tb10.389.0880); TbHsp70.c (GeneDB accession number Tb11.01.3080); TbHsp70.a (GeneDB accession number Tb09.160.3090); TbHsp70.b (GeneDB accession number Tb927.7.1030); TbGrp170 (GeneDB accession number Tb09.211.1390); TbGrp78.1 (GeneDB accession number Tb11.02.5500); TbGrp78.2 (GeneDB accession number Tb11.02.5450); TbMit1(GeneDB accession number Tb927.6.3740); TbMit2(GeneDB accession number Tb927.6.3750); TbMit3(GeneDB accession number Tb927.6.3800); HsHSPA5 (GenBank accession number AAI12964.1); HsHSPA6 (GenBank accession number NP_002146.2); HsHSPA8 (GeneDB accession number AAK17898.1); Medicago sativa Hsp70 (GenBank accession number AAV98051.1); EcDnaK (GenBank accession number BAA01595.1); AtDnaK (GenBank accession number AAR84665.1); Bos Taurus BtHsc70 (GenBank accession number P19120.2); LmHsp110 (GeneDB accession number LmjF18.1370); TcHsp110 (GeneDB accession number Tc00.1047053507831.60). A multiple sequence alignment was generated using the Muscle alignment tool and maximum likelihood analysis performed using MEGA5 version 5.2.2 [43]. The rooted tree was generated after 1000 bootstrap replicates, and confidence values are given on the branches.
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