Figure 1.

Diverse dehydrin subclasses based on the segment presence. The key segments and their order in each subclass are shown. Among others, the K-, S-, Y-, and F-segments belong to the well-known ones; ‘m’ and ‘n’ letters in the subscript (next to small rectangles depicting protein segments) indicate the number of a given segment in each subclass. The number of repeats for particular segments that are presented in the figure by various color tones is just exemplary and reflects the diversity in the segment number across various subclasses. The distance between the drawn segments is shown highly schematically and does not reflect the real distance between the segments in the particular dehydrin molecule.