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Figure 1.
Figure 1. The KMgATP binding site and a model for ATP hydrolysis. (A) An electron density map is contoured at 4s (green) and 6s (magenta) in the s[A]-weighted residual F[o] -F[c] map using the final model with all coordinated water molecules removed. Coordination bonds to metal ions are shown in green, coordination polyhedron in silver, and hydrogen bonds in red dashes. Coordination bond lengths calculated from all 14 subunits for Mg to O2a, O1b, O3g, W555, W556, and D87 are 2.24(±0.07), 2.32(±0.10), 2.21(±0.08), 2.27(±0.14), 2.10(±0.11), and 2.33(±0.05) Å, respectively. The coordination bond lengths for K to O1a, W551, W552, W553, W554, T30, and K51 are 2.55(±0.05), 2.50(±0.06), 2.78(±0.06), 2.60(±0.10), 2.59(±0.09), 2.59(±0.05), and 2.53(±0.08) Å, respectively. (B) A hypothetical attacking hydroxyl ("W999") for ATP hydrolysis is placed on the line connecting D52 to the gP atom at a distance of 2.8 Å to D52.