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Figure 1
Comparison of the sequences and structures of bacterial disulfide isomerases. (a) Top panel: alignment of the N-terminal regions of α-DsbA2 (excluding the signal peptide residues 1–15) and EcDsbC. Secondary structure was determined from the structure of EcDsbC (PDB entry 1eej) or was predicted using JPred (Drozdetskiy et al., 2015BB11) for α-DsbA2. Blue, helices; red, strands. Middle panel: sequence alignment of the N-terminal regions of α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2, CcScsC and PmScsC. Secondary structure for α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2 and CcScsC was predicted by JPred and that for PmScsC was determined from the structure (PDB entry 4xvw). Blue, helices; red, strands; orange, the shape-shifter peptide that adopts different conformations in PmScsC (Furlong et al., 2017BB19), although predicted to be helical by JPred. Dark blue letters indicate glutamine residues in the shape-shifter region of all four proteins. In this alignment, one residue is conserved across the N-terminal regions of all four proteins and is marked `*', one residue is conserved across α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2 and CcScsC and is marked `@', and nine residues are conserved across LpDsbA2, CcScsC and PmScsC and are marked `&'. Bottom panel: sequence alignment of the N-terminal regions of α-DsbA2 and close homologues. The homologues were obtained using BLASTp (Altschul & Koonin, 1998BB4) and were aligned according to sequence matching to α-DsbA2. In this alignment, fully conserved residues are marked `*' and residues that are conserved in at least seven of the 13 α-DsbA2 homologues are marked `&'. (b) Structure- and sequence-based alignment of the C-terminal domains of α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2, CcScsC, PmScsC and EcDsbC. The secondary structures of α-DsbA2, PmScsC and EcDsbC are from their structures; the secondary structures of LpDsbA2 and CcScsC are those predicted by JPred. The CXXC active site and cis-proline loop residues are identified by shaded boxes. Sequence colour key: blue, helices; red, strands; orange italics, shape-shifter peptide; dark blue, glutamine residues in the shape-shifter peptide region. In this composite alignment, the ten residues that are conserved in all five proteins are marked `*', the additional seven residues that are conserved across the four proteins α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2, CcScsC and PmScsC (but not EcDsbC) are marked `^', the ten residues that are conserved across the three proteins α-DsbA2, LpDsbA2 and CcScsC (but not PmScsC) are marked `@', and the seven residues that are conserved across LpDsbA2, CcScsC and PmScsC (but not α-DsbA2) are marked `&'. In all alignments, the sequences for which structures are known are marked `#'.

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