Figure 5

Predicted amino acid sequences of the novel non-disulfide-bridged peptides (NDBP). A) NDBP-5.5 and NDBP-5.6 are aligned with others scorpion cytolytic peptides; the percentage of identity with IsCT is shown. Putative signal peptides are in italics, whereas identified C-terminal prosequences and mature forms are underlined or in bold characters, respectively. B) Alignment of NDBP-3.7 with members of the NDBP 3 subfamily. See Supplementary Figure 2 for the complete nucleotide sequences encoding for NDBP-5.5, NDBP-5.6 and NDBP-3.7. Each sequence starts with its SwissProt accession number followed by common names. Identical amino acids are in red colour and conserved ones in green.