Figure 2
Schematic drawing of the structure of bovine pancreatic phospholipase A2 viewed in the direction of the plane of the interfacial activation site. The central hole loosely corresponds to the hydrophobic channel leading to the catalytic site. Strands are shown as arrows and helices as spirals. α-helices are labelled αA, αB, αC, αD and αE; 310-helices are labelled I, II and III; N and C represent the N-terminus and C-terminus. The seven disulfide bridges are also shown. Colouring is according to Beq: colour ramping is from orange (lower Beq) to green (higher Beq). The essential calcium ion is depicted as an ochre sphere. This figure was generated with the program MOLSCRIPT (Kraulis, 1991). |