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Figure 3.
Figure 3. The active site. a, A CPK model showing the distribution of conserved residues. Identical and similar residues among the four proteins shown in Fig. 1a are shown in blue and magenta, respectively. The area enclosed in the dashed lines has the highest concentration of conserved residues. The model is viewed in the same orientation as in Fig. 2a. b, A surface representation of the structure. Red, blue and white indicate negatively charged, positively charged and neutral surface potentials. The structure is shown in the same orientation as in (a), and the same area is enclosed by a yellow dashed line. A blue arrow points to the cleft where Arg 406 resides. c, Stereo view of the conserved area shown in (a,b). The side chains of several conserved residues are shown as stick models (carbon, orange; nitrogen, blue; oxygen, red; sulfur, magenta) superimposed with a ribbon drawing of the structure as in Fig. 2a. Key residues are labeled.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Struct Biol (2002, 9, 828-832) copyright 2002.