Table 1.
The range of pairwise sequence similarity between members of various subfamilies
| Subfamily | LCS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LCS (129) | 10-30 | MCS | ||||
| MCS (25) | 10-20 | 20-50 | 4-CL | |||
| 4-CL (115) | 3-30 | 10-30 | 20-90 | Luciferase | ||
| Luciferase (29) | 10-30 | 10-30 | 10-35 | 50-90 | AcCS | |
| AcCS (120) | 5-30 | 10-30 | 4-30 | 10-30 | 10-90 | NRPS |
| NRPS (190) | 2-30 | 10-30 | 10-30 | 10-30 | 10-30 | 30-50 |
All against all pairwise sequence comparisons were carried out by Needleman and Wunsch program of the EMBOSS package. The figures in the parenthesis indicate the number of sequences included in our analysis for each subfamily.