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Figure 5.
Figure 5. A model for CLP polymer binding with F-actin and other proteins. (A) CLP polymer and F-actin have the same repeating distance. The morphologies of the two polymers match each other very well. Its long flexible C-terminal arm may help CLP binding other molecules. (B) A model for CLP polymer binding with F-actin. (C) CLP-F-actin copolymer binding with other proteins (red). The F-actin diagram is provided by Amy McGough (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX). The models in B and C were prepared with Photoshop, and the charged surface model and the CPK (red) model were prepared with SPDBV and MOLSCRIPT, respectively.