Origin of the Diversity in DNA Recognition Domains in Phasevarion Associated modA Genes of Pathogenic Neisseria and Haemophilus influenzae
Figure 4
Alignment profile for 77 N. meningitidis modA12 alleles and flanking regions.
The DRD variable domain, 330 nt upstream and 450 nt downstream were aligned using ClustalW and visualized using Jalview. The nucleotides are represented as vertical bars coloured according to consensus identity (dark blue >90% identity; light blue >50% identity; white <50% identity). Highlighted in red is a block of sequence indicative of recombination, where some sequences are identical to equivalent regions of H. influenzae PittEE, modA6.