TABLE 2.

Summary of calculated values for conserved amino acid similarities and identities between C. immitis BGL2 and β-glucosidase sequences of other fungi

Sequence compareda	Similarity (%)b	Identity (%)
Histoplasma capsulatum H-antigen	85.2	74.3
Aspergillus aculeatus BGL1	79.3	66.6
Aspergillus niger BGL1	79.2	66.2
Saccharomycopsis fibuligera BGL1	58.8	42.9
Coccidioides immitis BGL1	54.3	40.2
Pichia capsulata BGLN	52.4	37.8
Pichia anomala BGL	52.0	34.8
Geaumannomyces graminis avenacinase I	43.0	39.1
Kluyveromyces marxianus BGL	37.1	18.5

^aThe amino acid sequences of the β-glucosidases of the indicated fungi were obtained from GenBank. The protein accession numbers are listed in Table 1. 

^bBased on CLUSTALW alignment of amino acid sequences, taking into account conserved substitutions of residues (19).