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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Comparison of calcyphosine with CaM. (a) Evolutionary relationship of calcyphosine with some of its nearest homologs. The sequences of some typical Ca^2 +-binding proteins with four EF-hand motifs were aligned using ClustalW, and the output tree file was displayed as a dendrogram using the program TreeView 1.6.6. The proteins are human proteins, unless stated in the dendrogram. (b) Superposition of calcyphosine and CaM (PDB code 1CLL) based on EF-hands 3 and 4. The color scheme is the same as for Fig. 1a, with CaM shown in magenta. All figures were prepared using PyMOL (http://www.pymol.org). (c) Sequence alignment of calcyphosine with CaM. N-terminal additional α-helix αA and C-terminal inserted α-helix αJ are shown in blue boxes. Residues that correspond to the target recognition in the C-domain of CaM are highlighted with cyan spheres.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2008, 383, 455-464) copyright 2008.