Table 1. Comparison of SjOAR with homologous proteins from other species.

Property	Unit	S. japonicum	P. falciparum	E. coli	M. tuberculosis
Molecular Weight	KDa	28.7	33.32	22.56	25.56
pI	-	7.61	9.33	6.76	8.76
Signal peptide	-	No	Yes	No	No
Oligmeric state	-	N.D.	Tetramer	Tetramer	Tetramer
Km(app)NADPH	μM	93.6±4.2	47.5±4.5	21	26±3
Km(app)AcAcCoA	mM	0.55±0.03	0.51±0.05	2.5	0.17±0.02

Data for S. japonicum are from the present study; data for P. falciparum are from [12], [22]; data for E. coli are from [32] and data for M. tuberculosis are from [17], [20]. N.D. not determined.