Student Interface to the Biology Workbench:

http://bighorn.animal.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/sib.py

1.	GLUT4 (Glucose transporter gene) is a protein related to obesity and diabetes. Using the protein tools within the biology workbench, find (with Ndjinn) the human sequence for GLUT4 and the sequences for at least three mammals (including primates and rodents, if you wish) that contain genes that code for GLUT4.

2.	Import the sequences for these proteins

3.	Use CLUSTALW to align these three proteins.

4.	Import that alignment, and use DRAWTREE to graphically depict the relationship between those species

5.	Repeat steps 1-4 for the P53 protein (an important cancer suppressor)) and the alpha hemoglobin protein.

6.	Compare and contrast the relationships between these species according to the three proteins you used. This works best if for each protein you have roughly the same set of organisms.