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Figure 1.
Figure 1 Stereoview ribbon representation of the Yuh1–Ubal complex. (A) Ubal is not shown in this panel. Sidechains of the active-site residues Gln84, Cys90, His166 and Asp181 (red) are labeled Q, C, H and D. N- and C-termini are labeled. The disordered segment (residues 63–77) is indicated with the adjacent ordered residues labeled in magenta. The active-site-crossover loop is colored yellow. Secondary structures were as defined by PROMOTIF (Hutchinson and Thornton, 1996). Strands are colored green and the helices blue. Helix 4, which contains the active-site nucleophile Cys90, is colored cyan. This helix undergoes a severe kink, indeed PROMOTIF defines residues 90–100 and 103–105 as separate helices. We describe this as one continuous helix in order to maintain consistency of nomenclature with UCH-L3, which also has a severe kink in the corresponding part of helix 4. The following are labeled on the figure: strand 0 (S0, residues 11–12), strand 1 (S1, 31–36), strand 2 (S2, 54–60), strand 2^1 (S2^1, 81–82), strand 2^2 (S2^2, 128–129), strand 3 (S3, 165–172), strand 4 (S4, 176–180), strand 5 (S5, 189–193), strand 6 (S6, 227–233); helix 1 (H1, residues 15–25), helix 2 (H2, 44–46), helix 4 (H4, 90–105), helix 5 (H5, 111–122), helix 6 (H6, 132–143), helix 7 (H7, 205–221). Helices are alpha-type, except for helix 2 and residues 102–105 of helix 4, which adopt the 3[10] conformation. There is a turn of alpha helix (residues 146–150) within the active-site-crossover loop. (B) Same as (A), but including the Ubal shown in magenta. The sidechains of Ubal residues discussed in the text are shown in orange and labeled. Figures 1, 4, 5 and 6 were produced with the programs MOLSCRIPT (Kraulis, 1991) and RASTER 3D (Bacon and Anderson, 1988).

The above figure is reprinted from an Open Access publication published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd: EMBO J (1999, 18, 3877-3887) copyright 1999.