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Figure 7.
Fig. 7. Conformational changes in the active sites of AtMTAN1 (a) and EcMTAN (b) upon binding of FMA or MTT. (c) Superimposition of EcMTAN-Ade and apo-AtMTAN1. Electron density is missing for the β10-α6 loop in EcMTAN because of disorder, so this region is not modeled in the structure and is represented here by a dotted line. (d) Superimposition of EcMTAN-MTT and AtMTAN1-MTT highlighting the positions of Phe148 in AtMTAN1 and Tyr107 in EcMTAN and their relative proximities to the 5′-alkylthio end of the ligand. In all panels, the apo- and MTT-bound structures of AtMTAN1 are shown in yellow and brown, respectively, while the ADE- and MTT-bound forms of EcMTAN are shown in gray and pink, respectively.