The Genome of the Obligate Intracellular Parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: New Insights into Microsporidian Genome Dynamics and Reductive Evolution
Figure 5
Characterization of a T. hominis-specific family of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) containing proteins.
(A) Representative family members showing the characteristic pattern of LRR motifs. (B) Some shorter members of this family appear to be fragments derived from larger ORFs by pseudogenization, as indicated by patterns of sequence similarity and synteny. The height of the coloured boxes indicates the p-value of the motif hit assigned by the MEME suite [103]. (C) The LRR motifs that form the building blocks of this protein family, which, at 117 members, is the largest identified in the T. hominis genome.