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Figure 2.
Figure 2. Gallery of triple and tertiary base-pairs in the three-dimensional structure of yeast tRNA^Phe. (a) Stick representation of triple base-pairs shown within their combined, sigmaa-weighted |2F[o] - F[c]| electron density map contoured at 1.0 s. Phosphate atoms are shown in magenta, carbon atoms in yellow, nitrogen atoms in blue and oxygen atoms in red. Nucleotide labels are colour coded according to the scheme in Figure 1(a). Mg2+ and water molecules are indicated by green and red spheres, respectively. For clarity, only hydrogen bonds between nucleotides are shown (broken green lines). (b) Stick representation of tertiary base-pairs shown within their combined, sigmaa-weighted |2F[o] - F[c]| electron density map contoured at 1.0 s. Conventions are as in (a).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2000, 301, 401-414) copyright 2000.