Figure 15.

Nucleotide sequence of the putative promoter and first coding exon of various Locusta vasopressin genes. The TATA box and a near perfect copy of the first motif of the Drosophila core promoter (Ohler, 2006) are emphasized, while the putative intron donor splice site is in bold italics. The conceptually translated protein is indicated below the DNA sequence and the predicted signal peptide is highlighted in yellow, the convertase cleavage site in red, the glycine residue transformed into the C-terminal amide in purple, the vasopressin-like sequence in light blue and the two cysteine residues that will form the disulfide bridge in orange.