Fig. 7.

Identification of potential conserved elements in the ESAG9 family 3′UTRs. (A) The regulatory region in different ESAG9 gene 3′UTRs aligned using CLUSTAL Omega. Yellow and purple shaded residues are the nucleotides that form ascending and descending stem structures, determined from analysis of consensus-predicted RNA structures, as detailed in the text. (B) Predicted RNA structures of sequences downstream of ESAG9 genes with similarity to that of the ESAG9-EQ element. These represent the region of the ESAG9-EQ regulatory element folded according to the ‘RNAstructures’ webserver.