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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Stereo ribbon drawing of one subunit of the trimeric TSP N prepared with MOLMOL.[59] The domain formed by the large right-handed -helix is in dark grey. Thirteen complete turns wind around the helix axis and form a long binding groove for the lipopolysaccharide receptor of phage P22 present on the surface of its host Salmonella. Bound octasaccharide, a product of the hydrolysis catalysed by the endorhamnosidase, is indicated by thick lines. The mutation sites addressed here are indicated as light spheres. The N-terminus is located in the lower left.