Figure 1

Schematic representation of the position of introns in type VI intermediate filament genes. A) The arrows along the tanabin cDNA diagram indicate the predicted positions of introns in the tanabin gene deduced from the genomic sequence of X. tropicalis (v4.1). B) The arrows indicate the location of introns in nestin [6], transitin [14] and synemin [13]. An IF protein diagram is illustrated at the bottom of the figure for orientation purposes. The blue box represents the α-helical rod domain.