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From: Role of the venus kinase receptor in the female reproductive physiology of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

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Sequence and structure of SgVKR. Left: Schematic representation of a VKR, composed of different domains: VFTM = Venus FlyTrap module, TM = transmembrane domain and TK = tyrosine kinase domain (adapted from Ahier et al.)4. Right: Amino acid sequence of SgVKR. The complete SgVKR sequence (GenBank acc. no. KY273096) was found in the in-house S. gregaria transcriptome database (our unpublished data) and was confirmed with PCR and Sanger sequencing. The VFTM is highlighted in grey, the TM domain is highlighted in yellow and the TK domain is highlighted in black. Underlined residues are conserved in most VKR sequences and those also in bold and red correspond to the amino-acid binding motif of VFTM29. The residues in green, bold and underlined are consensus sequences required for TK activity17.

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