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Figure 5.
FIGURE 5. Modeling the rCD48-rCD2 complex. A, two orthogonal views of a ribbon representation of the likely complex formed between the full extracellular domains of rat CD2 (blue) and rat CD48 (green, modeled on cCD48). B, expanded view of the interface, with the side chains of the residues most likely to be involved in the interaction shown as ball-and-stick representations. Hydrogen bonds are shown as dashed red lines. C, comparison of the modeled rat CD2-CD48 complex (left) with the solved human CD2-CD58 complex (right, CD58 in red). The solvent-accessible molecular surface of the separate proteins is shown semi-transparently over a representation of their secondary structure to illustrate the complementarity of the binding surfaces.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2006, 281, 29309-29320) copyright 2006.