Figure 3

Alignment (A) and phylogenetic analysis (B) of the deduced TM regions of the Xenopus and mammalian FcR- and KIR-like proteins. All the displayed mammalian members of the KIR family associate with FcRγ subunit. The X. tropicalis genes are designated according to the scaffold number and a gene position. Identical and similar residues are shown by white letters on black and gray backgrounds, respectively. The Neighbor-Joining tree of the nucleotide sequences of the TM exons was constructed using the MEGA3 software [39]. The bootstrap values are shown.