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From: The Mediterranean scorpion Mesobuthus gibbosus (Scorpiones, Buthidae): transcriptome analysis and organization of the genome encoding chlorotoxin-like peptides

Figure 8

Schematic representation of gene structures of the Meg-chlorotoxin genes from Mesobuthus gibbosus . Amino acid deduced sequence and genomic organization are shown. A) Highlighted letters show identical amino acids between toxin sequences; putative mature sequences are in bold; Cysteines residues are highlighted in red. Abbreviations of different DNA source correspond to: c, cDNA and g, genomic DNA. The peptide is abbreviated as pep. Identity value (% I) corresponds to the mature sequences. B) The cartoon shows the gene topology of the three Meg-Clorotoxins-like and the chlorotoxin Bm12 from M. martensii[56] in the bottom of the alignment and scheme. Recently, Bm12 was named as BmKClTx3 in the genome report from M. martensii[46]. Large boxes are the translated sequences (signal peptide in black and mature peptide in green or blue), whereas thin lines above boxes match the deduced sequences from cDNA clones obtained. Introns () and untranslated sequences (UTR) are represented as thin lines.

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