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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Structure of the Methyltransferase Active Site(A) Stereo ribbon diagram showing the F[o] - F[c] difference density (magenta) observed in the active site of the AdoHcy-bound MT0146/CbiT crystal form with molecular replacement phases calculated from the apo model. The electron density was contoured at 3.5 s. The coordinates of the AdoHcy molecule shown in ball and stick representation came from the structure of the COMT homolog [12] on the basis of the structural alignment of its methyltransferase fold to that of MT0146/CbiT by the program DALI.(B) Stereo pair showing the binding contacts to the AdoHcy molecule in the refined MT0146/CbiT complex structure.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Cell Press: Structure (2002, 10, 1475-1487) copyright 2002.