FIGURE 9.

Alignment of the EKAL domain in proteins identified as homologs of KAHRP and EMP3 in P. falciparum, P. reichenwowi, P. knowlesi, P. vivax, P. cynomolgi, P. fragile, P. inui, and P. ovale. Proteins were aligned using T-COFFEE (113). Residues with >70% identity or similarity are shaded in dark gray and light gray, respectively, using Multiple Align Show (114). A black line above the alignment represents the highly conserved EKAL domain, and a dotted line represents an extended conserved domain used for assembling phylogenic trees.