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Figure 2.
Figure 2: Structures of the closed and open conformations of SoPIP2;1. a, Stereo models of SoPIP2;1 in its open (blue) and closed (green) conformations overlaid on that of AQP0 (light grey; Protein Data Bank (PDB) entry 1YMG) and AQP1 (grey; PDB entry 1J4N). b, c, Electron density for loop D in the closed (b) and open (c) conformations. The structural model of the closed conformation is coloured green and the open conformation is coloured blue. Both 2F[o] - F[c] electron density maps are contoured at 1.0 . Residual electron density in c indicates that the closed conformation is also present in partial occupancy.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2006, 439, 688-694) copyright 2006.