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Figure 4.
(a–e) Electron-density features around the imidazole ring of His447 at pH 4.5 (a), pH 5.2 (b), pH 5.8 (c), pH 7.3 (d) and pH 9.0 (e). (f) A view of the interactions between His447, Asn321 and Asn323 at pH 5.2. The 2F[o] – F[c] density (magenta) is contoured at 4.0 , and the sharpened F[o] – F[c] density (green) is contoured at 2.0 . The atoms are depicted by a ball-and-stick representation. The bifurcated hydrogen bonds formed by ND1 of His447 with the amide groups of Asn321 and Asn323 are drawn as blue dashed lines. The chemical structure of the histidine side chain with labeled atoms is included.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Chem Biol (2006, 2, 259-264) copyright 2006.