FIGURE 3.
Sequence alignments of representative disintegrins. The sequences were obtained through research in the Blast software (Altschul et al., 1990; Gish and States, 1993). The pink color highlights the sequence signatures, green the residues that are not conserved within the signatures, orange the cysteines. Dotted blue squares show the conserved L/I that compose the hydrophobic core. RGD/KGD or related three-peptides are underlined. The codes representing the sequences were obtained from PDB and UniProt. Abbreviated: VAP-1 (Vascular apoptosis-inducing protein 1); RRV-X (Russell’s viper venom factor X activator); EcoHIT (Viper PIII hemorrhagic SVMP Echis coloratus); EcH (Metalloproteinase Echis pyramidum leakeyi); Gloydius shedaoensis (G. shedaoensis); SSV (saw-scaled Viper). The multiple sequence alignment was performed using the ClustalW2 server (https://www.genome.jp/tools-bin/clustalw).