Figure 3 - full size

Figure 3.
Figure 3. Oligomerization of AhpE. (a) The AhpE dimer, characterized by mostly hydrophobic interactions across a non-crystallographic 2-fold axis. Prominent contributors to the interface are the two a3 helices and the two b6-b7 hairpin loops. Side-chains in the interface are shown in stick mode. (b) The AhpE octamer, formed by operation of the crystallographic 4-fold axis, relating four dimers.