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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. (A) Structural alignment of a model of the single-chain, precursor form of the serine proteinase homology domain of HGFl/MSP (green) and the crystal structure of the corresponding two-chain form (pink). The model of the single chain form of the protein was constructed with MODELLER[39], using the atomic coordinates of the plasminogen -chain (pdb: 1QRZ) [24] as template. Residues discussed in the text are labeled and shown as solid sticks. The figure was generated with PYMOL [36]. (B) and (C) Surface representation of the serine proteinase domains of two-chain HGFl/MSP (b) and the model of single-chain HGFl/MSP (c). The amino acids shown in colour are either those corresponding to the catalytic triad (on the left) or amino acids in L13 that have been shown by mutagenesis to be involved in receptor binding. The figure has been prepared with SPOCK (http://quorum.tamu.edu/Manual/).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies: FEBS J (2005, 272, 5799-5807) copyright 2005.