Table 1.
Characteristics of hexamerin genes and respective subunits in the honey bee.
| Gene structure | Conceptual product | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hexamerin genes/subunits | ORF (nt) | Exon number | Amino acid Number | Molecular mass (kDa) | pI | Signal peptide length |
| hex 70a/HEX 70a | 2,055 | 6 | 684 | 79.19 | 6.45 | 21 |
| hex 70b/HEX 70b | 2,052 | 7 | 683 | 77.26 | 6.64 | 21 |
| hex 70c/HEX 70c | 2,061 | 6 | 686 | 79.44 | 7.67 | 19 |
| hex 110/HEX 110 | 3,027 | 8 | 1008 | 110.21 | 6.37 | 24 |
Molecular mass and pI calculated using http://expasy.org/cgi-bin/protparam and http://phobius.sbc.su.se/