Figure 2.

Sequence comparisons of the newly identified and previously described variants of ovine KRTAP6-3. (A) Alignment of the nucleotide sequences revealed five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and two 45-bp deletions in the gene; (B) These nucleotide sequence variations would lead to four amino acid changes and two deletions of 15 amino acids in the central region of the putative protein, which contains repeats of the sequences CGYG and SGFRRLG. Nucleotides or amino acid residues identical to the top sequence are indicated by dashes, and dots represent deletions. The arrow indicates the new SNP identified in this study, and the boxes indicate repeats of amino acid motifs. Residues that could be phosphorylated are shaded.