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Figure 3.
Figure 3. Structures of the Active Sites of epsilon, Greek 186 and Other Exonuclease Domains(A and B) Low- and high-pH structures, respectively, of the active site of epsilon, Greek 186. The two Mn(II) ions, Mn[A] and Mn[B] are shown (in orange) coordinated to the 5'-phosphate of TMP. The remainder of the TMP molecules are omitted for clarity (but see Figure 4). Coordinated-water molecules are represented by red spheres.(C-E) Comparative structures of the 3'-5' exonuclease active sites of exonuclease I (PDB code 1FXX) [41], DNA polymerase I (1KRP) [51], and bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase (1NOY) [7]. Structures were aligned as in Figure 2, and diagrams were drawn using RIBBONS [78].

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Cell Press: Structure (2002, 10, 535-546) copyright 2002.