Figure 3.
Nurse shark IgLσ CDR3 alignment. The top six clones are from young animals, the rest from adult. Conserved cysteine of FR3 and GxG motif of FR4 are highlighted in grey, as are stop codons (TERM) and frameshifts (FS). Deviations from genomic thought due to somatic hypermutation are in italics along with any change in encoded amino acid.