Fig. 1. The overall structure of dormant moesin. The N-terminal FERM domain (cyan) is associated with the C-terminal tail (red) which binds as an extended peptide inhibitor to block a large part of the surface of the FERM domain (from Pearson et al., 2000). The three FERM domain lobes are labeled as F1, F2 and F3 (F for FERM domain), and the major secondary structural elements of the C-terminal tail are labeled with the nomenclature used in this paper: ß1 for the single ß-strand, and
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D for the four
-helices. Fig. 1 was created with the programs Swiss-PdbViewer (Guex and Peitsch, 1997) and Pov-Ray (http://www.povray.org).