Binding of Lj-p53 to HDM2 is enhanced by Lj-p53(G22L) mutation. (A) A surface presentation (pink) of the human crystal structure of HDM2Nterm (residues 25–109) in complex with a fragment of Hs-p53 (cyan) showing the interaction of the three critical residues F19, W23, and L26. (B) A surface presentation (green) of a homology model of the p53-binding region of Lj-Mdm2Nterm showing the putative interaction with Lj-p53 (orange). Note that the equivalent of L26 in Hs-p53 is a glycine, G22, in Lj-p53 (arrow in both figures). (C) Competition titrations of Hs-p53 and Lj-p53 peptides against FAM-12.1 for binding to HDM2Nterm. KD values are in Supplemental Table S2. (D) Western blot of Lj-p53 and Lj-p53(G22L) immunoprecipitated (IP) by HDM2Nterm, which was used as bait. All proteins were expressed by in vitro translation. Input levels can be seen in the bottom panels.