Figure 2

The nucleotide phylogenetic tree of mammalian cGSTs. The tree was built in MrBayes, after excluding the third codon position [36]. Posterior probabilities (PP) values are shown (in parenthesis are highlighted the PP values obtained in a tree reconstruction using amino acid sequences). The multiple sequence alignment was first done at the amino acid level using structural information in 3D-Coffee [32]. Changes in the key catalytic amino acid are depicted in black boxes. The enzymatic activities of each class are described on the right. Classes theta, zeta and omega are thought to be the most ancient (see Table 2 for distribution in various taxa).