Fig. 2. Hro-hh is an hh homolog. (A) Domain alignment of
HH-homologs in leech (Hro-hh; accession number AF517943), mouse (Mus-shh,
Q62226; Mus-ihh, P97812; Mus-dhh, Q61488), human (Hom-shh, Q15465), zebrafish
(Dan-shh, A49426), Amphioxus (Amp-hh, CAA74169) and fruitfly (Dro-hh,
L02793): secreted HH amino terminus (HH-N, gray box); within the less well
conserved carboxy-terminal fragments (HH-C), putative autoprocessing sequence
motifs (PASM, black box) and the cell division sequence motif (CDSM, hatched
box) in Hro-hh are indicated. (B) Alignment of HH-Ns, including the
available sequence from a mollusc, Patella vulgata (Pat-hh,
AF435840). (C) Alignment of PASMs in HH-Cs. Gray shading in B and C indicates
conserved residues. shh, sonic hedgehog; ihh, Indian hedgehog; dhh, desert
hedgehog.