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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Structure of the Covalent Adaptor-Substrate Complex(A) Aligned structures of the disulfide-linked SspB-SBD^S-SssrA complex (pink/red) with the noncovalent wild-type complex (cyan/blue; PDB code 1OU8) (Levchenko et al., 2003). SspB is displayed in ribbon representation, and the main chain atoms of the ssrA peptide are in stick representation. The disulfide bond (yellow) is displayed in CPK representation.(B) Simulated-annealing omit map of electron density for a portion of the ssrA peptide and the disulfide crosslink to SspB. The ssrA peptide and Cys44 of SspB were omitted during map calculations. The 1.9 Å 2F[0] − F[C] map is contoured at 0.7σ.(C) Sequence of the ssrA tag showing sites of contact with SspB or ClpX and the mutant cysteine used for crosslinking to SspB.(D) Surface/stick representation of one subunit of the covalent SspB-SBD^S-SssrA complex. Tag residues 9–11 (shown in purple) were not visible in the crystal structure and were modeled in an energetically favorable conformation for this figure.

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