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Figure 4.
FIG. 4. Interactions of H12 with the coactivator groove in the ER LBD·4-OHT and the ERR LBD·4-OHT complex (crystal form 1). A, fitting of the fortuitously co-crystallized cholic acid molecule into a 2F[o] - F[c] electron density map. B, superimposition of selected parts of the ERR LBD (orange) and the ER LBD (blue) bound to 4-OHT. In the ER LBD·4-OHT complex, H12 packs against the coactivator cleft of the respective LBD body with Leu-536 and Leu-540, mimicking LXXLL coactivator interactions. In the ERR LBD·4-OHT complex (subunit B in crystal form 1), H12 interacts with the coactivator groove of a neighboring molecule. Binding is distinct from that in ER due to the absence of a LXXLL motif in H12 of ERR . The alternative packing interactions between H12 and the coactivator groove, rather, are determined by the fortuitously co-crystallized cholic acid molecule that occupies part of the cleft.