Figure 3

Alignment of the amino acid sequence of Siba Def with different insect defensins. These sequences were based on BLAST search results. The symbols under the alignment indicate: (*) identical sites; (:) conserved sites; (.) less conserved sites. The six conserved cysteine residues involved in disulfide bridges are grey shaded and activation peptide cleavage sites are marked with a triangle. GenBank accession numbers for the analyzed sequences are shown in Figure 4.