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Figure 3.
FIG. 3. The metal centers. A, the F[o] - F[c] electron density maps of the native enzyme in complex with 100 mM ZnCl[2] contoured at 15 level and shown in magenta, with 50 mM CdCl[2] contoured at 15 level and shown in cyan, and with 100 mM CuCl[2] contoured at 18 level and shown in green. The metal ligands are shown as a ball-and-stick representation, with the Zn2+ and Cu2+ ions as magenta and green spheres, respectively. Zn2+ and Cd^2+ bind at the subsite, where Cu2+ binds at the [2] subsite. B, the 2F[o] - F[c] electron density maps of the H220A mutant contoured at 2.5 level and shown in cyan, and the difference map for the zinc ion contoured at 15 level and shown in magenta. The endogenous zinc ion binds at the [3] subsite instead of the site in this mutant. C, the 2F[o] - F[c] electron density map of the D366A mutant contoured at 2.5 level and shown in cyan, and the difference map for the zinc ion in complex with 100 mM ZnCl[2] contoured at 15 level and shown in magenta. The additional zinc ion binds at the [4] subsite. D, superposition of the native enzyme with 100 mM ZnCl[2] in blue, the native enzyme with 100 CuCl[2] in green, the H220A mutant in yellow, and the D366A mutant with 100 mM ZnCl[2] in red. The different metal coordination is carried out by small shifts in the side chains of ligands and small movements of the metal ions.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2004, 279, 13962-13967) copyright 2004.