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Figure 5.
Figure 5. Structural differences in the NLS polypeptides of NF-kB p65 and p65 Asn202Arg homodimers. (a) Ribbon diagram of the NF-kB p65(191-304) homodimer. A ball and stick representation of the Asn202 side-chain indicates its position near the dimer interface in this protein. (b) Similar ribbon diagram of NF-kB p65(191-304) bearing the Asn202 to Arg mutation. The mutant Arg side-chain is depicted as a ball and stick model. (c) Stereoview of electron density from a 2F[O] -F[C] difference Fourier map contoured at 2s for the region of the native p65 NLS polypeptide and a crystallographic neighboring molecule. (d) The same region in the Asn202 to Arg mutated p65 homodimer displays broken and disordered electron density for the NLS polypeptide as well as additional side-chain electron density at the site of mutation. Note the overall improved electron density for the ordered region of the mutated protein, which was determined with higher resolution diffraction data.