Figure 6.

A schematic picture of the truncated mutants of the gp053 protein. The mutants are named (shown on the left) according to N-terminal or C-terminal mutations and the presence of His-tag. The proteins, able to polymerise into nanotubes, are shown in blue. The mutants, incapable of polymerisation, are shown in black. The His-tags are shown in orange. The size of a protein in amino acids is shown on the right, and the portion of wild-type gp053 within a construct is depicted in parenthesis.