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Figure 2.
Fig. 2. Inhibitor 3 in complex with human thrombin blocked at the exosite by hirugen. (a) View of the active site, with solvent-accessible surface of thrombin's heavy chain in pale green, light chain in blue and hirugen in violet. Two refined sodium ions are shown as yellow spheres, water molecules as red spheres and the inhibitor skeleton in orange sticks; heteroatoms are color-coded. The F[o] − F[c] difference electron density for 3 is depicted in blue at 2.5σ. (b) Active-site residues are represented by green sticks; ligand 3 is shown in orange. The red sphere represents the water molecule being involved in a hydrogen-bonding network. Hydrogen bonds are indicated as broken lines in magenta.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2009, 391, 552-564) copyright 2009.