... in the alignment,Fig. 3) combined with a histidine cluster consisting of residues H3, H4, H10, H15 and H17, explains the gen-eral high efficiency of CAII isoforms as a catalyst[27,29] because ... posi-tions 94, 96 and 119 in CAII from Homo sapiens)which are directly involved in binding the zinc cofac-tor, are conserved in the two R. pachyptila sequences(positions labeled ‘Z’ in Fig. 3). ... a hydrophobic amino acid (leucine)instead of the histidine that is shared by almost allother sequences. The same amino acid replacementoccurs in the two isoforms CAa and CAb of Droso-phila...