Figure 4

Alignment of the AP2/ERF domains in Hevea (55 representative members). Black and light grey shading indicate identical and conserved amino acid residues, respectively. Light blue shading indicates conserved amino acid residues in group VI-L. Green indicates the V14, E19 residue conserved (Yoh Sakuma,2002); blue indicates the residue conserved in each group individually; pink indicates the supplementary residue in group IX. The black bar and block arrows represent predicted a-helix and b-sheet regions, respectively, within the AP2/ERF domain (Allen et al., 1998). Asterisks represent amino acid residues that directly make contact with DNA (Allen et al., 1998). The YRG, RAYD elements are indicated according to (Okamuro, 1997).