Fig. 4. Atomic level structural details of BG505 F14 and F14/Vt8 SOSIP.
a (top) Side view of VRC01 bound BG505 F14 SOSIP, with the rectangle highlighting the location of interior conformational change. (bottom) Zoomed-in view showing the gp41 region around residues K567 and W571 (shown as sticks), with the cryo-EM map shown as a mesh, and the underlying fitted coordinates in cartoon representation. b (top) VRC01-bound BG505 F14 SOSIP apex-facing trimer orientation, with the rectangle highlighting the location of interior conformational change. (bottom) Zoomed-in view showing the apparent histidine triad (shown as sticks) with the cryo-EM map shown as a mesh, and the underlying fitted coordinates in cartoon representation. c Side view of histidine triad relative to gp120 and residue K567. The viewing angles in Panels b and c are identical. d Top down view of histidine triad relative to gp120. e, f Comparison between the BG505 F14/Vt8 and BG505 SOSIP layer-1/2 and gp41 HR1 conformations.