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Figure 2.
Figure 2. (a) The active center structure of the CelK-cellobiose complex. Side-chains of the active site residues are shown in orange. The red sphere is the cadmium ion found at the catalytic site. Hydrogen bonds are shown in yellow. The cellobiose molecule is shown in green. F[o] -F[c] electron density map is superimposed to the model (contoured at 2.5s level, the atoms of cellobiose were excluded from the phase calculation). (b) The active center and carbohydrate ligand structures of CelK and Cel5A in different ligand states. Only the main-chain atoms are presented for the loops Ala233-Gly239 of Cel5A and Gln490-Gly495 of CelK. The bound sugars are labeled according to the binding sites. Hydrogen bonds are shown in yellow. The superimposed structures are Cel5A without ligand (open conformation, green), complexed with cellobiose (open conformation, blue) and covalent-intermediate (closed conformation, gray) and CelK without ligand (closed conformation, red) and cellobiose complex (closed conformation, orange).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2001, 310, 1079-1087) copyright 2001.