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Figure 2.
Figure 2 The internal pseudo-dyad in human EMAPII coincides with the 2-fold axis in bacterial CsaA. (A) Stereoview of EMAPII (in violet) superimposed onto itself (in orange), with superimposable regions shown as thick lines. The pseudo 2-fold axis is shown by an arrow. (B) The C-terminus domain of EMAPII (in yellow) is related by 2-fold symmetry to a subset of the OB fold (in dark violet). (C) Crystal structure of CsaA from T.thermophilus (Kawaguchi et al., 2001). A subset of the N-terminus of the symmetrical subunit (in yellow) matches the C-terminus domain of EMAPII. Orientations in (A), (B) and (C) are as in Figure 1A. (D) Structure-based sequence alignment of the C-terminal domain of EMAPII with its N-terminus domain and with the symmetry-related subunit of CsaA. Helices and strands are on a coloured background, with helices boxed. The C-domain of EMAPII is superimposable as a continuous peptide. Dots indicate residues of EMAPII (N-terminal domain) or CsaA (symmetry-related subunit) that superimpose with the C-terminus domain within a 2.5 Å cutoff; numbers indicate the length of non-superposable intervening sequences.