Sequence alignment of Lsm11 proteins. Additional sequences, accession numbers, and links are available at our online database (http://www.izb.unibe.ch/res/schuehome/schuemperli/Lsm11.html). The sequences are from the following species: Hs, Homo sapiens, human (UniGene Hs.187117); Mm, Mus musculus, house mouse (UniGene Mm.45659); Xl, Xenopus laevis (GenBank AF514310, UniGene Xl.13277); Tr, Takefugu rubripes, pufferfish (scaffold 544, positions 60′000–63′000); Ci, Ciona intestinalis, transparent sea squirt (ascidian tunicate; Unigene Cin.4879); and Dm, Drosophila melanogaster (Flybase CG12924). Residues identical to the human protein are shown in inverse print. Dark grey bars indicate conserved sequence patches in the N-terminal region. The conserved Sm motifs 1 and 2 are indicated by shaded boxes. The consensus sequences were adapted from previous sources (Hermann et al. 1995; Achsel et al. 2001). h indicates hydrophobic amino acids.
