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Figure 2.
Figure 2: Specific interactions of calpastatin with calpain entering and leaving the active-site cleft. a–d, The 27-residue B-peptide^7 is coloured as follows: the residues that make the loop out of the active site are coloured yellow, the residues N-terminal to the loop are purple, and the residues C-terminal to the loop are green. Other calpastatin residues are coloured dark grey. Hydrogen-bond interactions of calpastatin with calpain (coloured as in Fig. 1) are shown by black dashed lines. O and N atoms are coloured red and blue, respectively. a, Overview of calpain binding at the active site of calpain. b, Close-up view of the calpastatin at the unprimed side of the active site. c, Close-up view of calpastatin looping away from the catalytic residue. d, Close-up view of calpastatin at the primed side of the active site.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2008, 456, 409-412) copyright 2008.