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Figure 1.
Figure 1 Stereo ribbon plot of the catalytic domain of sc-tPA in 'standard' orientation. The inhibitor (dansyl-Glu-Gly-Arg-chloromethylketone) shown by green sticks is covalently bonded to Ser195 and His57 of the catalytic triad. Key sc-tPA residues are shown as yellow sticks: Asp102, His57 and Ser195 of the catalytic triad; Asp189 at the base of the S1 specificity pocket; and Asp194 and Lys156 which form a salt bridge in the activation pocket. The red ribbon shows the conformation of the N-terminal activation loop which includes the plasmin cleavage site. Some loops arranged around the active site are labelled: the mainly disordered 37 loop and the 110 loop to the east; the partially disordered 186 loop to the south-west is in proximity to the activation loop. The figure was made with SETOR (Evans, 1993).

The above figure is reprinted from an Open Access publication published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd: EMBO J (1997, 16, 4797-4805) copyright 1997.