Figure 1

Alignment of the amino acid sequences of proteins encoding by Bm-ASH, B-ASH1 and Dm AS-C genes. All of the proteins contain the AS-C characteristic one basic and two helix domains flanking a non-conserved loop domain, and a conserved C-terminal 16–17 aa motif also exists in each of the proneural genes but neither of the asense genes. Moreover, a conserved short motif SPxxS is also found in all of the investigated proteins. Amino acids that are similar in 100% of aligned sequences are shaded blue, in more than 80% but less than 100% with pink, and in more than 60% but less than 80% with darkgreen.