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Variation in the protein sequence is also found in a murine Hyal-2 homologue (NP_034619) [ 22 ] , which possesses three unique 2-, 5- and 7-amino-acid segments, not identical to the above Hyal-2 proteins.
Zhao and colleagues [ 52] identified frizzled (denoted FZD2) as the human homologue of the Drosophila polarity-determining gene.
While human E1 is highly similar to its fission yeast counterpart (data not shown), inspection of the S. pombe genome revealed fourteen potential UBCs, none of which is an obvious homologue of human UBC3 or budding yeast Cdc34p, since all lack the characteristic C-terminal extension (data not shown).
homologue of adenylyl cyclase-associated proteins), Enabled (Ena) and Abelson (Abl).
The neurotoxin P2 (35 ammo acids), another short toxin and a structural homologue of short insectotoxin II and 15, shows toxicity towards Sarcophaga falculata and crustaceans [ 26 ] . Chlorotoxin, isolated from Leiurus quinquestriatus haebraeus, shows Cl -channel-blocking activity and causes paralysis due to the inhibition of structurally related anion channels such as the extrajunctional channels of arthropod muscles [ 11 ] . It has also been reported that the short insectotoxin I5A may act on a "glutamate receptor of the postsynaptic membrane" [ 22 ] . Although no specific experimental evidence is available on the mode of action of ButaIT, it is assumed that ButaIT exerts similar ion channel blocking activity as that of other short insect toxins.