Fig. 4

Shared motif in the promoter sequence region of several P. sojae PL3-coding genes. The motif was identified by MEME-Suite analysis of aligned nucleotide sequences, up to 500 bp upstream of the transcription start site for each PL3-coding gene. Five, out of eleven genes (XM_009532098.1, XM_009522992.1, XM_009523712.1, XM_009526562.1, and XM_009526401.1), contained this conserved motif, and its presence correlated with observed increases in transcriptional activity during pathogenicity. Size of base indicates relative level of conservation in the examined sequences