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Figure 2.
Figure 2. Comparison of the complex with other CaM -target peptide complexes. a, Ribbon representation of the MARCKS peptide -CaM complex compared with other globular-type CaM -target peptide complexes: MLCK (PDB entry 1CDL), CaMKII (1CDM) and CaMKK (1IQ5). The N- and C-lobe of CaM are shown in green and blue, respectively. The target peptides are shown in red. Ca^2+ ions are shown as black spheres. The figures were produced using MolScript40 and Raster3D^41. The target peptides are shown in red. The key hydrophobic residues of target peptides anchored to either of the N- or C-lobes of CaM are shown in ball-and-stick representations and labeled. Electrostatic surface representations of CaM N-lobe with b, MARCKS peptide and c, MLCK peptide^8 and C-lobe with d, edema factor (EF)19. In (d), only part of helix H of EF (residues 521 -537), which interacts with Ca^2+-bound C-lobe of CaM, was shown. The hydrophobic pocket of CaM observed in (c,d) is flattened in (b) and is not involved in the interaction with MARCKS peptide. Hydrophobic residues of MARCKS peptide interacting with CaM N-lobe, Leu159 and Phe162, are located on different hydrophobic surfaces of CaM. The figures were generated using GRASP42. e, Superimposition of CaM N-lobe of the MARCKS peptide -Ca^2+-CaM (yellow) onto those of the MLCK peptide -Ca^2+-CaM8 (green). The MARCKS and MLCK peptides are shown in red and orange, respectively.

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