Fig 5. Multiple sequence alignment of Y₃K₁ and Y₃SK₂ dehydrins comparing their conserved segments.

The multiple sequence alignment was generated by running MUSCLE with the default parameters, and was visualized using Seaview [52,54]. The conserved segments are shown bound by colored boxes. Black box, Y-segments; blue box, S-segments; orange box, K-segments. Colors represent the amino acid grouped by their chemical properties. Yellow, hydrophobic (Ala, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Pro, Trp, Val); green, polar (Cys, Gly, Ser, Thr, Tyr); purple, neutral (Asn, Gln); red, negatively charged (Asp, Glu); blue, positively charged (Lys, Arg, His).