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Figure 1.
Figure 1. The structure of the Mms2–Ubc13-Ub complex. (a) Blue, Mms2; magenta, Ubc13; orange, the covalently attached donor ubiquitin. TheC terminus of the donor ubiquitin, Gly76, is covalently attached to active site residue Ser87 of Ubc13(C87S). (b) Packing interactions between complexes in the crystal. One Mms2–Ubc13(C87S)-Ub complex is drawn as a surface representation (same coloring as in a) and an adjacent complex as ribbons (turquoise, Mms2; red, Ubc13; green, ubiquitin), to show packing in the crystal. The latter ubiquitin (green) binds in the acceptor site of the Mms2 from an adjacent complex (blue). Lys63 of this acceptor ubiquitin lies in the active site near the ester linkage.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Struct Mol Biol (2006, 13, 915-920) copyright 2006.