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Figure 2.
Figure 2. A: Structural diagram of the monomeric unit of uricase (PDB 1r51), which is also composed of a tandem duplication of the T-fold. The N- and C-terminal domains are colored green and gray, respectively. B: Tunnel-shaped oligomeric complex of uricase. The active site is composed of residues from different subunits (colored gray, beige, green, and slate-blue) of the enzyme. The ligand molecules bound at the active sites are shown in CPK. C: Stereo diagram of the structure alignment of the monomeric unit of uricase and TM1553. TM1553 is colored blue and uricase gray. Uricase does not contain the additional helical domain. The ligands at the active sites of uricase (shown in CPK) and TM1553 (shown as orange spheres) are in completely different locations. D: Stereo diagram of the putative active site of TM1553. The structure of TM1553 is colored gray and the side-chains of residues within a 4 Å shell of the UNL are displayed in ball-and-stick representation. The electron density of a 2Fo-Fc omit map contoured at 1 (blue) around the UNL (orange spheres) in the active site is shown. Water molecules in the active site are not displayed.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Proteins (2006, 64, 1083-1090) copyright 2006.