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Figure 1.
CYP46A1 active site. (a) The composite-omit 2|F[o]|−|F[c]| electron density map (green mesh) contoured at 1.5σ around the heme (in pink) and CH-3S (in yellow). Amino acid residues (in cyan) within 4 Å of CH-3S are shown. The heme iron and water molecule 732 are represented as big brown and small red spheres, respectively. The oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur atoms are in red, blue, and orange, respectively. Dashed cyan lines indicate hydrogen bonds. Residues forming a circular scaffold are labeled in red. (b) Enlarged view of the active site around the sulfate anion of CH-3S and (c) in the vicinity of the heme iron. Dashed gray lines connect the C24 and C25 of CH-3S and the heme iron.