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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Tertiary structure of SUMO-2 and comparison with other proteins.(A) A ribbon representation of the protein fold. (B) A topology diagram with well-defined backbone hydrogen bonds. The helices ( 1, 2) and strands ( 1– 5) are coloured in magenta, blue, green, yellow and red from N to C terminus. The hydrogen bond distances, with a criterion of less than 3.2 Å, are observed in the refined model at 1.2 Å, with one exception between Asp16 and Arg36, which is seen in the 1.6 Å model. The amino acids are shaded in red, green and blue for acidic, neutral and basic polar residues, and in yellow for prolines and glycines. In (C) the polypeptide tracings of two SUMO-2 models from type I (12–89) and type II (17–88) crystals, shown in green and red, are superimposed with that of human ubiquitin (1–76), shown in blue. In (D) the yeast SMT3 crystal structure (20–98) and human SUMO-1 NMR structure (–2–101), coloured yellow and cyan, respectively, are compared with the SUMO-2 structure (type I crystal), shown in red.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies: Eur J Biochem (2004, 271, 4114-4122) copyright 2004.