Amino acid sequence alignment ofR. prolixus NP1 (Swiss-Port entry Q26239), NP2 (Swiss-Port entry Q26241), NP3 (Swiss-Port entry Q94733), NP4 (Swiss-Port entry Q94734), and NP7 (Swiss-Prot entry Q6PQK2)(1).The total sequence identity among all five protein sequences amount to 33% (indicated by '*'). The proximal His is indicated by '#'. An initial Met residue (in grey) results in case of the recombinantly expressed proteins of NP1, NP2, NP3, and NP7 is not present in the mature proteinsin vivo (2, 3). Residues of relevance to this study are highlighted in color.
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