Fig. 3. Alignment of the S. domuncula peptide fragment (ADAMTS_SD), deduced from the EST SDADAMTS, with the human ADAMTS-9 precursor, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs 9 (ADAMTS-9_HUMAN, Q9P2N4) (Clark et al., 2000). The numbers at the human sequence refer to the complete sequence. The sponge polypeptide consists of the CSVTCG peptide domain that bind to the CD36 receptors (CD36BD). The borders of the sequence that were used for the preparation of the recombinant protein are given {-expression-}.