Homology modeling of major intrinsic proteins in rice, maize and Arabidopsis: comparative analysis of transmembrane helix association and aromatic/arginine selectivity filters

Table 1 Six additional rice MIP sequences. Details of new rice MIP genes identified from the TBLASTN search.

Name	Accession no.^a	Length	Comments
OsPIP1;4	AAB82140	289	Belongs to indica cultivar-subspecies
OsPIP1;5	AAB18817	291	Belongs to indica cultivar-subspecies
OsTIP2;3	CAD41593	768	Has ~500 residue long C-terminal extension
OsNIP1;5	9629.t00960	303	TIGR Release 4 has 70 residue deletion between the two NPA regions
OsNIP3;4	9640.t00931	267	N-terminus is longer by 31 residues in TIGR release 4
OsNIP3;5	BAC98553	283

^a Accession codes of NIP1;5 and NIP3;4 are from TIGR; all others are GenBank accession codes

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