Figure 5. Comparison of secondary structures for the GFAP tail regions for the GFAPα, GFAPδ/ε and GFAPκ isoforms across species.

The secondary structures of GFAP isoforms across human, mouse and rat were predicted using the PSIPRED server. Only the tail sequences were used as the sequences are similar up to exon 6. The program predicts the possibility of a helix (pink box), strand (yellow arrow) or a coil for the target amino acid.