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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Tosyl-m-amidinophenylalanyl-piperidine (thickconnections), NAPAP (mediumconnections),and MQPA (thincon- nections)boundtotheactivesite of humana-thrombindisplayedtogetherwiththeConnollysurface f thrombin(Turk et al., 1991). The naphthyl/toluene/chinolyl groups of theinhibitorsinteractwiththearyl-bindingsiteofthrombin;thesidechains ofthe m- and thep-amidinophenylalanyl residues andofthe arginylresidueenterthespecificitypocketfrom slightly differing sites; the S2 subsiteofthrombin is occupiedtodifferentextentsbythe(partiallysubstituted)piperidinemoieties.The viewis similartothestandard view of Figure .

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Protein Society: Protein Sci (1992, 1, 426-471) copyright 1992.