Figure 5
Conservation of core amino acid residues adopted from [51]. 35 full-length I. scapularis serpin sequences were aligned with the human, α1-antitrypsin (α1-HAT, accession # AAB59495) using structural based sequence alignment program (STRAP, http://www.charite.de/bioinf/strap/. The aligned sequences were visually inspected for conservation of core amino acid residues. The minus sign (-) denotes conservation of the specific amino acid residues. Replaced residues are indicated.