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. 2018 Feb 13;8:2946. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20920-1

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Sequences logos of the ST conserved motifs. Four multiple sequence alignment of all the ST sequences corresponding to 102 opisthokonts, 23 Bacteria, 119 protists/Archaeplastida GT29 ST and 5 ST of GT42 CAZy family sequences was carried out with MUSCLE in MEGA7.0.1864 (Supplemental data 1). The informative region used was restricted to the ST catalytic domain encompassing the 4 conserved sialylmotifs i.e. L (39–45 aa), S (21–23 aa), III (1–4 aa) and VS (1–6 aa) as defined previously40. Sequence logos of each sialylmotif in the 4 groups of ST sequences show sequence conservation as the overall height of the stack and the relative frequency as the height of symbols within the stack. Symbols are colored according to their chemical properties polar amino acids (G, C, S, T, Y) are green, basic (K, R,H) are blue, acidic (D, E) are red, hydrophobic (A, V, L, I, P, W, F, M) are black and neutral polar amino acids (N, Q) are pink95,96.