Sequence analysis
Homology search was made with b asic l ocala lignment s earch t ool (BLAST) by using
Clustal W (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/). Signal
sequence predictions were made by Target P
(http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TargetP/). Nucleotide sequence
data were taken from the database at the following website:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>.