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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Cartoon of PGA showing the secondary structural elements, a-helices and b-sheets. (a) Mature enzyme [McVey 1999]. (b) Precursor: the A domain is shown in green, the B domain in blue and the linker peptide is in red. The N-terminal nucleophilic serine residue is also drawn in yellow as a ball and stick model. Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 5 and Figure 7 were created with the program BOBSCRIPT [Esnouf 1997].

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2000, 302, 887-898) copyright 2000.