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Figure 5.
FIG. 5. Normalized F[o] - F[c] disaccharide electron density map for the thioin the active site of ERManI and comparison of the sugar ring conformations with the enzyme-bound conformation of dMNJ in the -1 subsite and the M7 mannose residue in the +1 subsite. A, a stereographic representation of the difference electron density for the omitted inhibitor in the ERManI-thiodisaccharide cocomplex. The inhibitor model is shown to aid in map interpretation. The reducing terminal Man- -O-CH[3] is shown at the top, labeled as the +1 subsite residue, and the nonreducing terminal Man residue in the 3S[1] conformation is labeled as the -1 subsite residue. Carbon and sulfur atoms in the structures are labeled as a reference. The electron density map was contoured at 3 for the gray mesh and 10 for the red mesh, demonstrating the significant electron density at the glycosidic sulfur, the O-3' and O-4' hydroxyls of the +1 residue, and the O-2', O-3', and O-4' hydroxyls of the -1 residue. B, the protein structure of the ER-ManI-thiodisaccharide co-complex was aligned with the corresponding protein structures of the ERManI·dMNJ co-complex (20) and the co-complex of yeast ERManI containing a Man[5]GlcNAc[2] glycan in the active site (21) using Swiss-PdbViewer (version 3.7) (55). Displayed in the figure are the structures of the thiodisaccharide (yellow stick figure), dMNJ (green stick figure), and the M7 residue of the Man[5]GlcNAc[2] glycan in the +1 subsite (white stick figure; see Ref. 19 for oligosaccharide residue nomenclature). Carbon and sulfur atoms in the structures are labeled as a reference. The M7 residue is in an identical conformation as the +1 residue of the thiodisaccharide and in a similar position except for an offset of 0.5-0.7 Å resulting from the longer C-S bond lengths of the thiodisaccharide. The positioning of the -1 subsite residues (dMNJ versus the -1 residue of the thiodisaccharide) were virtually identical at the C-2, C-3, and C-4 positions. The main differences between the two structures were found in the equivalent of the C-1, O-5, C-5, and C-6 positions.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2005, 280, 16197-16207) copyright 2005.