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Figure 5.
Figure 5: Extracellular and cytoplasmic gates. a, Slice through the surface of LeuT[Aa], viewed parallel to the membrane, showing the extracellular cavity. Connolly surface of LeuT[Aa] is shown in beige. l-Leucine, Tyr 108, Phe 253 and the two charged pairs (Arg 30 -Asp 404 and Arg 5 -Asp 369) are depicted as stick models in yellow for leucine, purple for aromatic residues, blue for arginines and red for aspartates. b, c, Key interacting residues at the extracellular (b) and at the cytoplasmic (c) gate.