Figure 1From: Organization of Plasmodium falciparum spliceosomal core complex and role of arginine methylation in its assemblyConservation of Plasmodium falciparum Sm proteins. (A) Amino acid sequence alignment and comparison of Sm motifs 1 and 2 of Plasmodium Sm-B, D1, D2, D3, E, F and G core proteins with their human, yeast and Trypanosoma homologues. An alignment of the conserved Sm motifs 1 and 2 is presented with the consensus shown above ($, hydrophobic residue). Conserved amino acids are outlined by reverse print (red, overall conservation; black, subgroup conservation). (B) The unrooted phylogenetic trees of Sm proteins constructed with ClustalW using neighbour joining method. Abbreviations: Pf, Plasmodium falciparum; Hs, Homo sapiens; Tb, Trypanosoma brucei; Tc, Trypanosoma cruzi and Sc, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Back to article page