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Figure 1.
Figure 1. PfPK5 Sequence and Fold(A) Alignment of PfPK5 with selected CDKs. PfPK5 (Swissprot accession number Q07785) was aligned with selected CDK sequences (human CDK2 [P24941], S. pombe Cdc2 [P04551], S. cerevisiae CDC28 [P00546], H. sapien CDK6 [Q00534], H. sapien CDK5 [Q00535], and T. brucei tbcrk1 [s05853]), using the program CLUSTAL-W (Thompson et al., 1994), and rendered with the program Alscript (Barton, 1993) (numbered as for PfPK5). Key sequence motifs are highlighted: glycines of the kinase GXGXXG motif, magenta; residues subject to regulatory phosphorylation in CDK1, red; CDK6 residues that contact p16^INK4A, light blue (Russo et al., 1998); residues delineating the activation loop, cyan; residues equivalent to CDK5 153, a key CDK2/CDK5 sequence difference, salmon (Tarricone et al., 2001); GDSEID motif, involved in both CKS1 (Bourne et al., 1996) and KAP binding (Song et al., 2001), dark blue; other residues that contact KAP or CKS proteins, turquoise; the kinase insert region, and CDK insert region, areas of hypervariability between kinases are boxed (Hanks and Hunter, 1995). Residues shaded in yellow are highly conserved between all CDKs.(B) The monomeric PfPK5 fold. The N-terminal domain (residues 1-82) is colored white and the C-terminal domain (residues 83-288) gold. The glycine-rich loop (residues 10-19), the C helix (residues 39-56), and the activation loop (residues 143-170 from the conserved DFG to APE motifs) are colored magenta, red, and cyan respectively. PfPK5 residues Asp125, Asn130, and Asp143 are drawn in ball-and-stick mode and are discussed in the main text.(C) Overlay of the structures of monomeric PfPK5Thr198Ala and CDK2 in the vicinity of the activation loop. CDK2 has been superimposed, colored green (De Bondt et al., 1993). The CDK2 activation loop forms a b hairpin that turns across the end of the glycine loop, while the activation loop of PfPK5^Thr198Ala adopts an extended structure as it stretches away from aL12 into a short a helix of 2.5 turns.

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