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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Stereo representation of the BRCA1 -BARD1 RING domain heterodimer depicting the locations of mutations found within the BRCA1 (gray) and BARD1 (blue) RING domains8. Sites of known cancer-predisposing mutations (C24R, C39S/Y, C44F, C47G/F, C61G and C64G/R/Y) are shown in red. Sites of mutations found as single occurrences in breast and ovarian cancer patients (R7C, V11A, I15T, M18T, I21V, I31M, T37V, L52F, L63F, L87V, I89T and I90T) are shown in black. Two Zn2+-liganding residues, Cys 27 in site I and His 41 in site II (green), have not yet been identified as mutations in cancer patients. No mutations within the RING domain of BARD1 have yet been discovered in cancer patients.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Struct Biol (2001, 8, 833-837) copyright 2001.