Fig. 8. Sequence alignments of the MAP peptides against the esterase S protein. (A) Alignments generated by ClustalW program (Thompson et al., 1994); identical (^*), conservative (:), and semi-conservative (.) residues are indicated. Since the length of MAP peptides is short, no gaps were allowed in the alignments. (B) Localization of the aligned MAP regions (black) over the fullsize esterase S sequence (grey). White boxes (a,b) indicate two relatively conserved amino acid domains of the D. virilis esterase S (for details, see Mikhailov and Torrado, 1999; Torrado et al., 2000).