Table 1. The 8 cysteine motif and number of flanking amino acid residues in Type III ns-LTPs.

The amino acid sequences of mature MtN5 and two other type III ns-LTPs identified in the M. truncatula genome were aligned using the ClustalW2 (www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalw2) program using default alignment parameters, selecting BLOSUM for the protein matrix, and choosing the input order of the sequences for the output option. Consensus symbols: *, identical residues; :, residues with strongly similar properties; ., residues with weakly similar properties. The conserved cysteine residues are shown in black boxes.