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Figure 2.
Fig. 2. A, stereo drawing of Sigma A-weighted 2 mF[o] DF[c] maps (20) contoured at 1 around the A169L/ C170W mutation site showing the good definition of the two new side chains and the reorientation of both gating residues tyrosine Tyr279 and phenylalanine Phe^280. The figure was prepared using BOBSCRIPT (24) and RASTER3D (25, 26). B, stereo view of the superposition of the COMM domains of wild-type TRPSIPP and A169L/ C170WF-IPP. Mutated and gating residues of the -subunit are shown in a ball-and-stick representation. C trace and residues of wild-type TRPSIPP are red ( -subunit), dark blue, ( -subunit), and yellow (COMM domain, the double mutant is green, carbon atoms of the -ligands and the cofactor PLP are gray, oxygen atoms red, nitrogen atoms blue, and phosphate is magenta. Panels A and B are related by an ~90° rotation around the axis perpendicular to the paper plane. The figure was prepared using MOLSCRIPT (27) and RASTER3D (25, 26).