Table 1.
Inferred major biochemical properties of the predicted proteins (boldface) and other distinguishing features: domains, motifs, and repetitive regions
| Gene | Protein properties |
|---|---|
| tweety | Repeats of glutamine, glycine, aspartic acid, and proline in C terminus |
| flightless | Actin filament binding; protein–protein binding; 6 gelsolin-like domains, 17 repeats of a leucine-rich motif |
| dodo | Peotidylprolyl cis-trans isomerase; WW domain; nuclear localization sequence; docking surface for NIMA kinase |
| penguin | Repeats of glutamine, alanine, glycine, serine, and threonine; sequence similarity to sperm activating peptide 1 precursor (denoted sapp); sequence similarity to pumilio repeats of Drosophila (denoted pum) |
| small optic lobes | Calcium-activated neutral protease; zinc finger motifs of the form WXCX2CX3NX5KCX2C |
| innocent bystander | GTPase; G1, G3, and G4 motifs diagnostic for guanine nucleotide-binding proteins |
| waclaw | Elongation factor, GTPase; G1, G3, G4 motifs, and diagnostic G2 elongation factor motif |
| bobby sox | Transcription factor, HMG domain (DNA binding and DNA bending); homopeptide amino acid stretches |
| sluggish | Proline oxidase |
| Helicase | DEAD-box family; ATP-dependent RNA helicases |
| misato | α-, β-, and γ-tubulin motifs; myosin-like motif |
| la costa | Signal peptide; 24 repeats of collagen-like sequence; 9 repeats of serine/threonine motif (TESS motif) |