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According to this nomenclature, receptor sequences with 40% or more amino-acid identity are considered members of the same family, whereas those sharing 60% or more identity constitute a subfamily.
Unrooted phylogenetic protein trees were derived by input of the indicated homolog amino-acid sequences into the ClustalW program (Version 1.4) [ 51].
Sequences that appeared to be of very poor quality (three or more internal stop codons or frameshifts observed in any 60-amino-acid stretch) were rejected because these sequences either are derived from pseudogenes or, if they represent functional loci, novel sequence information is obscured by the high levels of noise present in the sequences.
The seven amino-acid periodicity of the residues is consistent with a coiled-coil protein motif.
Amino-acid usage also differs greatly among species: for instance, the amount of arginine varies almost ten-fold, from less than 1.5% of all amino-acid residues in species of Borrelia to 12.