First Characterization of the Neospora caninum Dense Granule Protein GRA9

Figure 3

In (a), an in silico analysis of the NcGRA9 protein sequence according to Chou and Fasman [17] is shown which results in the identification of several alpha helical regions. Furthermore, the hydrophilicity of NcGRA9 was analysed according to Kyte and Doolittle [16]. This analysis characterizes NcGRA9 as a mainly hydrophilic protein. At the N-terminus a hydrophobic sequence is found, consistent with the predicted signal peptide. In (b) an alignment of NcGRA9 and TgGRA9 is depicted. The proteins have a sequence identity of about 60%. Identical amino acids are marked by grey boxes.

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