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Figure 1.
Figure 1: Sample transformations of metabolites from their ground state structure into the high-energy intermediate forms that were used for docking. Transformations were computed according to the conserved reaction mechanism of amidohydrolases, a nucleophilic attack of a hydroxide at an electrophilic centre atom. Every transformable functional group for each molecule was processed independently. If the high-energy structure was chiral, all stereoisomers were calculated. Reactions catalysed by the amidohydrolases cytosine deaminase (CDA), adenosine deaminase (ADA), dihydroorotase (DHO), D-hydantoinase (HYD), isoaspartyl-d-dipeptidase (IAD), N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase (NaGA) and phosphotriesterase (PTE) are shown.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2007, 448, 775-779) copyright 2007.