“…Sequence analysis suggested that these clones encoded at least three genes. The first group of 26 cDNA clones and zebrafish ESTs (EST269466, fb13f04, fc26d03, fc72f03 and fe18d09) from the database of the Washington University zebrafish EST project encoded the γ subunit of zebrafish chaperonin CCT, which shared 87%, 86%, 85%, 70% and 58% amino acid sequence identities with the Xenopus laevis, mouse, human, Drosophila melanogaster and yeast counterparts, respectively (Chen et al, 1994;Kubota et al, 1994;Dunn and Mercola, 1996;Walkley et al, 1996a;Walkley et al, 1996b;Walkley and Malik, 1996). The second group of five cDNA clones encoded a putative protein that had 69% amino acid sequence identity with human C18orf1, a transmembrane protein with a LDL receptor type A domain (Yoshikawa et al, 1998).…”