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Figure 4.
FIGURE 4. Structural analysis of the catalytic cleft. A, accessible surface of molecules A (white-blue-red) and B (green-blue-red) in the asymmetric unit with MeOSuc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-CMK shown for molecule A. B, semitransparent surface representation of the catalytic cleft of HAM2. The stick model in color-by-atom denotes MeOSuc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-CMK bound to HAM2. Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe-CMK (magenta), covalently bound to the crystal structure of human chymase (37), is superimposed onto the HAM2 structure. Molecular figures were prepared with PyMOL (DeLano Scientific LLC, www.pymol.org).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2008, 283, 427-436) copyright 2008.