Fig. 2. Alignment of TERT regions and motifs among nine mammalian species.
Nine mammalian TERT sequences were aligned, and their regions and motifs were defined based on previous reports (Nakamura et al., 1997; Bryan et al., 1998; Xia et al., 2000; Kuramoto et al., 2001; Banik et al., 2002; Delany and Daniels, 2004). The PL mouse sequence is depicted in bold letters. Conserved amino acid residues among nine mammalian species are indicated with asterisks (*). Gaps are illustrated with dashes colored in gray. Numbers on the right represent positions of amino acid residues in individual sequences.
