Figure 3.
H-fibroin repeats in the moths Y. evonymella,26 G. mellonella,38 B. mori35 and A. pernyi28 and the caddisflies H. angustipennis and L. decipiens.44 Several motifs are recognised: Ser and/or Ala rich, may alternate with Gly (dash-underlined), bulky hydrophobic central residues flanked with charged residues (highlighted grey), GlyGlyXxx triplets (dot-underlined) and motifs containing Pro (for example GPGLV) or Trp surrounded by charged residues (solid-underlined).
