Figure 4.

Amino Acid Sequence Alignment of Members of the Maize δ-Zein Protein Family.

The polypeptides correspond to the 18- and 10-kD δ-zein alleles of the B73 inbred line (see Table 1 for GenBank accession numbers and abbreviations) and the δ-zein allele of the Mo17 inbred line (Swarup et al., 1995; GenBank accession number U31541). Identical residues are shown in boldface, and conservative changes are shaded. Underlined residues indicate peptide sequences that were synthesized chemically and used to develop specific antibodies (see Methods).