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Figure 7.
FIG. 7. Interactions between the thiodisaccharide and the +1 and -1 binding sites in human ERManI. Shown is a schematic diagram (left panel) of the interactions between the thiodisaccharide and ERManI in the -1 and +1 subsites, demonstrating hydrogen bonding interactions (green dotted lines), direct coordination of the enzyme-associated Ca^2+ ion (blue dotted lines), hydrophobic stacking of Phe^659 with the C-4-C-5-C-6 region of the -1 residue (black dotted lines), and proposed acid-catalyzed through-water (W8) protonation of the glycosidic oxygen (sulfur in the thiodisaccharide) and the base-catalyzed (Glu599) attack by the water nucleophile (W5) (red dotted lines). Residue numbering of amino acid side chains in the respective subsites is indicated. The stereo view (center and right) illustrates a stick diagram of the interaction between the thiodisaccharide residues in the -1 and +1 subsites relative to the residues examined by mutagenesis here. Coordination to the Ca^2+ ion (blue dotted lines), and the proposed nucleophile trajectory and acid protonation of the glycosidic oxygen (red dotted lines) are indicated. The small red and green space fill structures representing the water molecules and carbonyl oxygen and O- of Thr688 that coordinate the Ca^2+ ion are as described in the legend to Fig. 2. The green dotted lines indicate hydrogen bonds between the respective residues.

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