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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Superposition of the maltohexaose (sticks) and maltononaose (lines) inhibitor structures. At subsite +3 the conformation of the maltohexaose inhibitor is more bent toward Phe^196 and is stabilized by Lys47, which is Arg47 in the CGTase from B. circulans strain 251. Moreover, the replacement of Tyr89 (B. circulans CGTase) by Asp89 (T. thermosulfurigenes EM1 CGTase) makes that the "straight" maltononaose conformation at subsite +3 is not as stably bound^ in T. thermosulfurigenes EM1 CGTase than as in B. circulans CGTase.