Methods and Materials

Following the evolution of the protein

The protein sequence was blasted in the NCBI website. The blasted sequence was scanned using a non-redundand database to obtain the most significant sequences. 57 sequences with significant E-values were recovered. 55 of these sequences were used to perform a multiple alignment sequence by using the program ClustalX. When this was completed, a distance matrix calculation was performed on the sequences. THe program Phylip was used.