KG, Düren, Germany) and both DNA strands were sequenced at the Unidad de Genómica (Parque Científico de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). Analysis of DNA sequences was performed with the BLAST program available at the National Center for MI-503 price Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by projects AGL2009 − 08348-ALI from Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MCYT), Spain; GR35/10-A from Banco Santander-Central Hispano-Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain; S − 2009/AGR − 1489 from Dirección General de Universidades e Investigación, CAL-101 solubility dmso Consejería de Educación, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain,
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