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Figure 2.
Fig. 2. Crystal structures of BP-1 and BP-2. Dpo4 is represented by a purple molecular surface, the DNA and the incoming dATP are shown as blue sticks, and the PAH is highlighted in yellow. The divalent cations (Ca^2+) are shown as green spheres. The unpaired dAMP at the 3' end of the template strand was added by the terminal deoxynucleotide transferase (TdT) activity of Dpo4 that is common to archael D in B-like polymerases (34) (Fig. 4, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site). Figs. 2 and 3 were generated by using RIBBONS and GRASP (35, 36).