Figure 1: In silico analysis of plant defensins used in this study.
From: The antifungal plant defensin AtPDF2.3 from Arabidopsis thaliana blocks potassium channels
(A) Sequence alignment between representative scorpion toxins and plant defensins. Sequences were aligned, matching the conserved cysteine residues in plant defensin sequences, using the COBALT alignment tool24; (−) denotes gaps in the alignment. UniProtKB accession numbers are presented. Conserved cysteine residues in plant defensin sequences are highlighted in grey; Lys27 and Asn30 present in the toxin signature are highlighted in blue and red, respectively. (B) Phylogenetic tree of sequences presented in (A) calculated by COBALT using the Fast Minimum Evolution method and Grishin distance24.
