RESULTS:
The locus FTT_1539 (also spelled FTT1539) of the Francisella
tularensis strain Schu S4 genome encodes a protein with 511 amino acid
residues, which we will refer to as the FTT_1539 protein. Initial
sequence analysis, including Hidden Markov Model (HMM) analysis with
Pfam [10], did not indicate homology to any well characterized
proteins and thus in the genomics databases it is described as a
“conserved hypothetical protein”. Below we present the results of the
sequence and structure analyses of this protein.