Table 2

Summary of putative opossum cytokine genes including search strategy, best hit, predicted glycosylation sites and signal peptide information.

Identity
Search Strategy
Best Hit
Number of predicted glycosylation sites
Signal peptide identified

Cytokines

reference
e-value
N-gly
O-gly
opossum

Interleukin 2
synteny
-
-
1
1
Yes
Interleukin 4
synteny
-
-
2
0
Yes
Interleukin 5
BLAST
AAD37462.1
4e-028
1
0
Yes
Interleukin 6
BLAST
NP_112445.1
0.081
2
3
Yes
Interleukin 10
BLAST
AAD01799.1
3e-011
2
0
Yes
Interleukin 12A
BLAST
NP_032377.1
9e-006
1
1
No
Interleukin 13
synteny/HMMER
-
-
0
0
No
Interleukin 19
BLAST
NP_001009940.1
3e-008
3
0
Yes
Interleukin 20
BLAST
NP_061194.2
1e-004
0
0
Yes
Interleukin 21
BLAST
Q9HBE4
0.088
2
1
Yes
Interleukin 22
BLAST
NP_065386.1
3e-005
1
0
Yes
Interleukin 24
BLAST
NP_006841.1
2e-006
2
0
Yes
Interleukin 26
BLAST
NP_060872.1
3e-009
0
0
No
Interferon-γ
synteny
-
-
2
0
Yes
Type 1 Interferons






IFN-α (7 genes)
BLAST
AAO37656.1
1e-019 to 9e-974 (range)
0–4 (range)
0
Yes
IFN-β
BLAST
AAO37656.1

2
0
Yes
IFN-κ
BLAST
AAO37656.1

1
0
No
Cytokine receptors






Common cytokine receptor gamma chain (IL-2Rγ)
BLAST
NP_000197.1
9e-019
6
3
No
Interferon-γ receptor 2
BLAST
NP_005525.2
3e-018
3
2
Yes
T cell surface receptors






CD4
BLAST
NP_000607.1
5e-009
4
0
Yes
CD8
BLAST
Q60965
9e-012
1
8
Yes

Wong et al. Immunome Research 2006 2:4   doi:10.1186/1745-7580-2-4