Figure 4

Schematic of SpAP3 and SpPI gene structures. Dark blue boxes represent amino acid encoding regions. Light blue boxes represent 5' UTR and control regions. Thin red lines represent introns. SpAP3 has seven exons and six introns. The introns are 153 bp, 2522 bp, 96 bp, 295 bp, 103 bp, and 943 bp in length respectively. Due to the lack of reliable 5' RACE data, the first exon start site is uncertain, however, the coding region of exon 1 extends 191 bp starting from the first position of the start codon. The remaining exons 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are 67 bp, 62 bp, 100 bp, 42 bp, and 45 bp in length, respectively, while exon 7 starts 138 bp through the stop codon and continues another 238 bp past the stop codon, although only 182 bp of this 3' untranslated region was included in the present survey. SpPI has sevens exons and six introns. The introns are 117 bp, 1504 bp, 388 bp, 127 bp, 912 bp, and 253 bp in length, respectively. Exon 1 extends to position 188 starting from the first position of the start codon. Exons 2 through 6 are 67 bp, 62 bp, 100 bp, 30 bp, and 45 bp long, respectively. Exon 7 starts 120 bp before the end of the stop codon and continues 169 past the stop codon. Positions of potential LEAFY binding elements and CArG boxes are indicated.