“…4), namely acid phosphatase P34724 of Aspergillus niger (62 % identity ; Ehrlich, 1994), acid phosphatase P37274 of Penicillium chrysogenum (60 % identity ; Haas et al, 1991Haas et al, , 1992 and acid phosphatases JC7179 and P08540 of Kluyveromyces marxianus (56 and 51 % identity, respectively ; Yoda et al, 2000). AfPhoAp also showed a lower level of identity with bacterial acid phosphatases, such as E70842 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Saleh & Belisle, 2000 RHGXRXP motif typical of many phosphatase enzymes (Van Etten et al, 1991) was not present in any of these phosphatases, but histidine 214 and aspartic acid 215, conserved in all of these proteins, could be part of the catalytic active site (Ostanin et al, 1992).…”