TABLE 2.
Alignment analysis of predicted polypeptides encoded by aflatoxin biosynthesis gene homologs in A. oryzae RIB 40 (% amino acid identitya)
| Gene | % Amino acid identitya
|
|
|---|---|---|
| A. flavus | A. parasiticus | |
| norB | Not possible | Not possibleb |
| cypA | Not possible | Not possible |
| aflT | 87 | 88 |
| pksA | 99 | 99 |
| nor-1 | 98 | 96 |
| fas-2 | 99 | 98 |
| fas-1 | 99 | 98 |
| aflR | 99 | 97 |
| aflJ | 99 | 98 |
| adhA | 98 | 98 |
| estA | 99 | 96 |
| norA | 93 | 93 |
| ver-1 | 99 | 99 |
| verA | 93 | 94 |
| avnA | 98 | 95 |
| verB | 97 | 96 |
| avfA | 98 | 86 |
| omtB | 98 | 94 |
| omtA | 98 | 97 |
| ordA | 98 | 96 |
| vbs | 99 | 98 |
| cypX | 97 | 97 |
| moxY | 99 | 94 |
| ordB | 99 | 92 |
| hypA | 97 | 93 |
a
Amino acid sequence data for A. flavus AF 70 and A. parasiticus SU-1 (ATCC 56775) were obtained from the NCBI nucleotide database.
b
Because the putative start codon was not found in A. oryzae RIB 40 and A. flavus AF 70, an alignment analysis could not be performed.