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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. The conserved PknB homodimer. (a) Superposition of the two crystallographically independent homodimers from the PknB-mitoxantrone complex (in red and green) with those observed in the PknB-nucleotide complexes 1O6Y [3] (in blue) and 1MRU [4] (in yellow). (b) Overall view of the PknB monomer (rotated 90° along the vertical axis with respect to the right monomer in Fig. 3a), color-coded according to amino acid conservation (red: highly conserved) in 39 PknB-like protein sequences from 35 different bacterial species (Bacillus anthracis, B. cereus, B. clausii, B. licheniformis, B. subtilis, Bifidobacterium longum, Clostridium acetobutylicum, C. perfringens, C. tetani, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, C. efficiens, C. glutamicum, Enterococcus faecalis, Geobacillus kaustophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. johnsonii, Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium avium, M. bovis, M. leprae, M. tuberculosis, Nocardia farcinica, Nocardioides, Leifsonia xyli, Oceanobacillus iheyensis, Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, S. saprophyticus, Streptococcus agalactiae, S. mutans, S. pyogenes, Streptomyces coelicolor, Symbiobacterium thermophilum, Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis, Thermobifida fusca). (c) Comparison of the PknB and RNA-dependent PKR dimer interfaces. The side-chain residues belonging to the interfaces are shown (PknB color-coded as in (b)).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies: FEBS Lett (2006, 580, 3018-3022) copyright 2006.