TABLE 3 .
Structural analysis of inositol transporter genes in Pneumocystis species
| Gene product and fungal species | gDNA size (bp) | No. of introns (position[s]) | % gDNA identity |
No. of amino acids | % Amino acid identity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. carinii | P. murina | P. jirovecii | P. carinii | P. murina | P. jirovecii | ||||
| ITR1 | |||||||||
| P. carinii | 1,568 | 1 (94–140) | 90.26 | 79.87 | 507 | 89.35 | 75.83 | ||
| P. murina | 1,571 | 1 (96–142) | 90.26 | 78.81 | 507 | 89.35 | 75.24 | ||
| P. jirovecii | 1,582 | 1 (97–136) | 79.87 | 78.81 | 513 | 75.83 | 75.24 | ||
| ITR2 | |||||||||
| P. carinii | 1,968 | 6 (95–143, 225–272, 742–786, 1166–1217, 1504–1549, 1593–1637) | 89.28 | 558 | 89.29 | ||||
| P. murina | 1,960 | 6 (98–145, 224–267, 741–785, 1161–1210, 1497–1540, 1586–1630) | 89.28 | 560 | 89.29 | ||||
DNAMAN version 5.2.9 was used to analyze the putative Pneumocystis ITR genes.