TABLE 5.

Estimation of nucleotide and predicted amino acid identities among products of selected ORFs expressed by T. cruzi amastigotes

Strain and protein	% Nucleotide or predicted amino acid sequence identitya
	CL-Brener ASP-3(5340)b	Sylvio X10/4 ASP-2c	G ASP-2d	Y ASP-2 (clone 9)e	Y ASP-2 (clone 13)f	ASP-4(7015)g
CL-Brener ASP-3(5340)		93.8	91.8	58.2	59.8	28.1
Sylvio X10/4 ASP-2	87.7		94.7	58.9	61.5	25.5
G ASP-2	72.8	77.3		56.8	59.2	24.3
Y ASP-2 (clone 9)	43.8	44.7	40.1		79.4	28.9
Y ASP-2 (clone 13)	45.4	48.1	43.2	69.9		27.5
ASP-4(7015)	21.7	18.4	15.2	22.3	23.2

^aIdentities were calculated by the ClustalW alignment. Boldface values represent nucleotide sequence identity; lightface values represent predicted amino acid identity.

^bGenBank accession no. BK006550.

^cGenBank accession no. EF579923.1 (10).

^dGenBank accession no. EF579923.1 (10).

^eGenBank accession no. AY186572.1 (6).

^fGenBank accession no. AY186574 (6).

^gGenBank accession no. BK006551.