Figure 1.

Nucleotide sequences for L. trifolii sHSP cDNAs and their predicted amino acid sequences. Nucleotide numbering starts with the adenine in the first methionine codon of the putative open reading frame. The highly conserved region, α-crystallin domain, is underlined. The asterisk indicates the translational termination codon. The putative polyadenylation signal is black triangles, the AT-rich element is black rectangles, the V/P/I motif is boxed and the TA-rich regions are indicated by shading. sHSP = small heat shock proteins.