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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Crystal structure of the Daam1 FH2 domain. (a) The domain structure of human Daam1. (b) Ribbon diagram showing the overall structure of Daam1 FH2 domain. Sub-domains including the lasso, the knob, the coiled-coil and the post region are labeled. The invisible linker region is drawn manually with a broken line for the purpose of illustration. The molecule is colored using the visible spectrum (from blue at the N terminus to red at the C terminus). (c) Ribbon diagram of the structure of Daam1 FH2 dimer. The broken line separates the two hemidimers. One molecule is colored the same way as in (b), while the other is colored tan. (d) Sequence alignment and secondary structure of the FH2 and DAD domains. Aligned sequences are from human Daam1, murine Daam1, human Daam2, murine Daam2, murine Dia1 and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Bni1p. Secondary structure elements are shown above the sequences, with rectangles representing helices and thin lines indicating non-helical regions. Conserved residues are colored red. Figures were prepared using the program PyMoL [Delano, W.L., The PyMol Molecular Graphics System (2002) http://www.pymol.org].

The above figure is reprinted from an Open Access publication published by Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2007, 369, 1258-1269) copyright 2007.