Figure 4.

Multiple sequence alignment of β-class phenol soluble modulins (PSMs) of S. capitis isolates. MSA of β-class PSMs protein sequences found in S. capitis genomes from this study and those described by O'Neill (2020) (sequences marked with ▴) created with ClustalW (Clustal et al., 1994). Residues are colored based on an amino acid property (red: small and hydrophobic, blue: acidic, magenta: basic, green: hydroxyl, sulfhydryl, and amine, and gray: unusual), positions that contain fully conserved residues are marked with an asterisk, and positions marked with a colon indicate conservation between groups of amino acids with similar properties.