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Figure 3.
Active site with the acarbose covalent intermediate. A, the acarbose intermediate covalently bound to Asp^363 shows tight interactions with the residues at subsite -1 in the dimer. The inhibitory acarviosine moiety is bound to subsites -2 and -3. The catalytic residues (Asp^363, Glu^399, and Asp^471) and other conserved residues in the active site are indicated by sticks. The ligand molecules are shown in yellow. Helix α4 unique to TreX is in pink. B, the electron density map of 2F[o] - F[c] (1.0 σ) shows the acarbose intermediate molecule at subsites -1, -2, and -3 (left) and the glucose molecules at subsites +2 and +3 (right). C, the omit map of F[o] - F[c] drawn without the ligand shows the covalent binding of the acarbose intermediate to Asp^326, contoured at 3.0 σ (left) and 5.0 σ (right).