Figure 9

The putative beltless protein; analysis and multiple alignment. (A) The putative beltless (Blt) protein shares homologies with the C. elegans nose resistant to fluoxetine (NRF) NRF-6 gene, including the NRF domain and the acyltransferase domain (Acyl_transf_3). Using the PROSITE motif search engine, we found a high probability for multiple potential phosphorylation sites in the putative Blt (shaded rectangles). (B) The BLAST homology search and the CLASTLOW multiple alignment tools aligned the Blt protein (Q9VXX9) with several uncharacterized C. elegans and Drosophila melanogaster genes, some with prominent acyltransferase domains.