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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Mar 28;133(15):5987–5995. doi: 10.1021/ja111515s

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Structure of sperm whale myoglobin (PDB: 2mbw54; the heme prosthetic group is omitted for clarity). The eight α-helices are labeled and the five sites analyzed in this work are highlighted. The inset shows the R1 spin label generated via reaction of a methanethiosulfonate reagent with a cysteine side chain thiol. Image created with PyMOL (version 0.99; DeLano Scientific, San Carlos, CA).