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Figure 2.
Figure 2. Stereo view, topology diagram and superposition of CheA and CheW. a, Stereo view showing the ensemble of NMR-derived structures of CheW, with -strands in red and helices in blue. The 20 lowest energy structures generated with CNS13 are superimposed to the mean. Disordered regions of protein backbone were not used for the superposition. b, Topology diagram of CheW showing the locations of secondary structural elements within the primary sequence. -strands are shown as red arrows; helices, as blue cylinders. c, Ribbon diagram of CheW showing the superposition of the average minimized NMR-derived structure of T. maritima CheW and CheA, using homologous regions of secondary structure. The superposition consists of CheW residues 10 -37, 51 -71, 79 -106, 124 -128 and 121 -141 from CheW (gold) and residues 538 -671 (543 -570, 581 -601, 610 -637, 652 -656 and 660 -670) from CheA (blue). R.m.s. deviation of backbone atoms is 1.95 Å for homologous regions. Residues corresponding to loops 1 and 2 and the C-terminal helix of CheW are colored red. The stereo view and ribbon diagrams were created with MOLMOL31, 32 and RIBBONS33, respectively.

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