Identification of the UDP-glucose-4-epimerase required for galactofuranose biosynthesis and galactose metabolism in A. niger

Table 1 Comparison of the percentage of amino acid identity between Uge proteins of A. niger , A. fumigatus , and A. nidulans

Species	Protein ID	*A. niger*			*A. fumigatus*			*A. nidulans*
		UgeA An14g03820	UgeB An12g10410	UgeC An02g11320	Uge3 Afu3g07910	Uge4 Afu4g14090	Uge5 Afu5g10780	UgeA AN4727.2	UgeB AN2951.2
A. niger	UgeA (An14g03820)	100*	40	39	39	37	94	94	39
	UgeB (An12g10410)		100	66	58	59	41	39	58
	UgeC (An02g11320)			100	86	59	40	40	81
A. fumigatus	Uge3 (Afu3g07910)				100	58	39	39	84
	Uge4 (Afu4g14090)					100	37	39	56
	Uge5 (Afu5g10780)						100	94	37
A. nidulans	UgeA (AN4727.2)							100	39
	UgeB (AN2951.2)								100

* values indicate percentage of amino acids identities after pairwise alignment using BLASTP at http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi.

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