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Four EST clones from Xenopus laevis were identified through blast search against the HsCOP1 protein sequence.
Additionally, the two eukaryotes Xenopus laevis and Homo sapiens have conserved the alanine, whereas the more distantly related species all conserve a methionine.
Mammalian protein phosphatase 5 (PP5) and its homolog protein phosphatase T1 (Ppt1p) from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contain a catalytic domain structurally related to the catalytic subunits of PP1, PP2A and PP2B, and an N-terminal domain consisting of multiple tetratricopeptide repeats (TPRs) not found in other members of this family of phosphatases [ 1 2 3 ] . Homologs have also been identified in Xenopus laevis [ 4 ] , Neurospora crassa [ 5 ] , Drosophila melanogaster [ 6 ] , Trypanosoma brucei [ 7 ] , Plasmodium falciparum [ 8 9 ] , and cauliflower [ 10 ] , and homologs for Caenorhabditis elegans, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Arabidopsis thaliana are predicted (accession number CAB60937, CAA17690 and AAD21727, respectively).
Furthermore, a study of 17 pairs of duplicated genes in the tetraploid frog Xenopus laevis has shown that both copies were subject to purifying selection [ 9], contrary to the notion of neutrality of one of the copies [ 1].
Xenopus laevis