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Figure 3.
Interactions between p110α and p85 nSH2. (A) Ribbon diagram of nSH2, helical, and kinase domains determined from the structure reported in this work. (B) The same ribbon diagram as in A but showing the position of the PDGFR phosphopeptide (gray) modeled as in PDB ID code 2IUI, at the interface between nSH2 and the helical domain. The loop of the helical domain occupies nearly the same position as the phosphopeptide, so their occurrence is mutually exclusive. (C) The phosphopeptide is predicted to disrupt the interaction between the positively charged nSH2 surface (shaded blue) and the negatively charged helical domain residues. The phosphopeptide is shown in gray, with its phosphotyrosine in stick and ball representation and the phosphate shaded red. The boxed region shows that the side chain of Glu-542 occupies the space usually occupied by the phosphate of the peptide's phosphotyrosine residue.