Research Article

Characterization of Zebrafish von Willebrand Factor Reveals Conservation of Domain Structure, Multimerization, and Intracellular Storage

Table 2

Human/zebrafish Vwf domain conservation.

DomainIdentities Positives Human zebrafish
(%)(%)lengthlength

D15170352351
D26479360359
D′51719088
D35669376370
A13657220233
A22856193193
A34258202207
D43954372382
B158733534
B252642630
B367832525
C15058116107
C24863119117
CK42649091

Total466228132812

Alignment of human and zebrafish amino acid sequences using BLAST (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ). Percentage identity represents exact amino acid matches, while positives indicate conserved substitutions. Domain length is in amino acids.