Figure 2. Fully simplified variants. a, Filter binding assay (top) for streaks of E. coli cells (bottom) bearing phagemids encoding wild type SH3, the two fully simplified variants, and a negative control (pBluescript) b, Sequences of fully simplified variants. Red: I,K,E,A,G. Black: residues which did not tolerate simplification. Light blue: residues where simplification was not attempted. c, Diagram showing the positions of simplified residues for FP2 in the wild type SH3 structure (1SRL). Side chains involved in ligand binding are displayed; the peptide ligand is in orange. The color scheme is as in b.

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TFVALYDYESRTETDLSFKKGERLQIVNNTEGDWWLAHSLSTGRTGYIPSNYVAPSD

EFIAIYDYKAETEEDLTIKKGEKLEIIEK EGDWWKAKAIGSGEIGYIPANYIAAAE
EFIAIYDYEAKEKEDLTIKKGEKIEIIEK EGDWWKAKAIATGKIGYIPSNYIAAAE

Riddle, D., Santiago, J., Grantcharova, V. and Baker, D. (1997). Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences. Nature Structural Biology 4, 805-809.

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