Fig. 1.

Phylogeny and protein domains of MiRF172. (A) A phylogenic tree showing the conservation of MiRF172 among Kinetoplastids. The position of MiRF172 in T. brucei brucei is highlighted in red. The scale bar indicates the number of amino acid substitutions. (B) Illustration of the MiRF172 ORF. Depicted are, in green, the mitochondrial-targeting sequence, in magenta, the phosphorylation site at position 999, in dark blue, the poly-Q stretch enriched domain, and in light blue, the alanine and lysine-enriched C-terminal domain.