Figure 1

An analytical view on the PP2C gene family in Arabidopsis. The following parts are shown from left to right. Protein distance tree generated by neighbor-joining: The unrooted tree, constructed using Mega (4.0), summarizes the phylogenetic relationship among the 80 members of the PP2C family in Arabidopsis. The neighbor-joining tree was constructed using aligned full-length amino acid sequences. The tree shows the 13 major phylogenetic subfamilies (numbered A to L, and marked with different alternating tones of a gray background to make subfamily identification easier). The numbers beside the branches represent bootstrap values (≥ 50%) based on 1000 replicates that were used to group the 13 subfamilies. Gene structure: The gene structure is represented by white boxes symbolizing untranslated regions, black boxes symbolizing exons and spaces between boxes corresponding to introns. The sizes of exons, introns and untranslated regions are drawn to scale as indicated on top. Protein structure: Each colored box with a number represents the occurrence of a specific motif in the protein identified using the MEME motif search tool (the sequence and length of each motif is shown in Table 3). The order of motifs corresponds to their position in individual protein sequences. Numbers between colored boxes represent the amount of amino acid residues between the motifs in AtPP2C proteins.