Molecular Structure of DPF2 (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Molecular Structure of DPF2

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This is a crystal structure of a portion of human DPF2, a protein that controls a genetic switch that tells blood stem cells when to become red and white blood cells. Orange and yellow regions illustrate the DPF2 'reader' domain, which is stabilized by zinc ions, represented as red and grey spheres.

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Hoelz Lab/Caltech

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