Figure 1

Schematic representation of the identified chicken patatin-like phospholipases. The solid lines represent the sequenced patatin-like lipases with N-terminus on the left. The patatin domain is drawn in gray with active site motifs highlighted in red. Thus far non-sequenced parts of the lipases are shown with dashed lines, where the lengths are from the human orthologs. The degrees of identity of the amino acid sequences between the human orthologs and the fully or partially sequenced chicken lipases range from 49% to 83% (for details, see Table 1).