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. 2022 Sep 22;11:e79247. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79247

Figure 3. Zebrafish mef2 paralogs encode highly conserved MADS box (MCM1, agamous, deficiens, and SRF) and MEF2 domains.

(A) Neighbor joining tree generated by Clustal Omega Multiple Sequence Alignment tool depicts the evolutionary relationships between the different zebrafish mef2 paralogs. The distance values (branch length) are indicated, which represent the evolutionary distance between the individual amino acid sequences and a consensus sequence. (B) mef2-encoded protein sequence alignment reveals high conservation of MADS box (green) and MEF2 (yellow) domains among all six paralogs. These domains are responsible for DNA binding, dimerization, and cofactor interactions. Transcript IDs used for alignment using the HHalign algorithm are listed in the Materials and methods.

Figure 3.

Figure 3—figure supplement 1. Zebrafish mef2 paralogs encode highly conserved N-terminal MADS box (MCM1, agamous, deficiens, and SRF) and MEF2 domains but divergent C-terminal domains.

Figure 3—figure supplement 1.

mef2-encoded protein sequence alignment reveals high conservation of MADS box and MEF2 domains among all six paralogs. However, the rest of the proteins encoded by these genes are poorly conserved. Transcript IDs used for alignment using the HHalign algorithm are listed in the Materials and methods.