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Figure 2.
Figure 2: Structural comparison of the CPD complexed with Dpo4 and protein free. a, Structures of the CPD (orange) and surrounding nucleic acids in TT-1 (blue), TT-2 (pink) and in the absence of protein (yellow)19 are shown in the ball-and-stick model after superposition of the CPDs. b, c, Ball-and-stick presentations of base-pairing of the CPDs in TT-1 (b) and TT-2 (c). The phosphorus atoms are shown in purple, oxygen in red and nitrogen in dark blue. The carbon atoms of the replicating base pair are white, and others are light blue.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2003, 424, 1083-1087) copyright 2003.