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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Oral Biosci. 2008 Jan 1;50(1):33–44. doi: 10.2330/joralbiosci.50.33

Fig. 4. Alignment of porcine, human, and rat DSP-DGP.

Fig. 4

The pig(#NP_998942)23), human(#NP_055023)48), and rat(#AJ403971)49) DSP-DGP sequences (DPP domain not included). The human and pig sequences show 58.5% (269/460) identity ; the human and rat sequences show only 41.1% (189/460) identity. Because the pig primary amino acid sequence is so much more identical to the human sequence than is the rat, the pig may be a more relevant animal model for understanding the functions of human DSPP-derived proteins.