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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Structural comparison of Htra proteins. (a) Structural alignment of the protease backbone atoms. N- and C-termini (NT, CT), loop5 (L5) and resdiues of the catalytic triade are assigned in ball and stick for clarity. The following colour code was used: DegS is magenta, DegP is cyan and HtrA2/Omi is coloured in blue. (b) Structural alignment of the PDZ domain with the same colour code used in (a). Selected secondary structure elements are marked. (c) Overlay of the active site residues from DegS, DegP, HtrA2/Omi and trypsin (in green). Residue numbers are assigned with respect to the DegS sequence. (d) Crystal structure of DegP with the protease domain superimposed onto DegS and the domain colour code according to the DegS structure in Fig. 1(a). (e) Crystal structure of HtrA2/Omi with the protease domain structurally aligned to DegS and the same colour code as for figure (d).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies: FEBS Lett (2004, 569, 351-358) copyright 2004.