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Figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Modeling of Inhibitor 1 into the PTP1B active site. The structure of Inhibitor 1 is shown in the inset. The active-site nucleophile Cys^215 in the PTP loop (pink) is shown along with Phe^182 in the WPD loop (green). Inhibitor 1 sits in the active site with the phosphonate (red) interacting with the PTP loop, and the difluoro group is within van der Waals distance of the phenyl side chain of Phe^182.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2006, 281, 5258-5266) copyright 2006.