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Figure 3.
Figure 3 Structural features involved in non-sequence-specific DNA recognition. (A) View of HMG-D protein from this structure (cyan) superimposed on the structure of the LEF-1 -DNA complex (Love et al., 1995) (PDB accession No. 2lef; coral) in the same orientation as Figure 1C. Side chains, selected on the basis of their potential involvement in DNA specificity, are shown. Detailed view of the interaction of residue 10 from both HMG-D (B) and LEF-1 (C). HMG-D protein is in cyan, LEF-1 protein is in coral, DNA is in gray, and black dashed lines depict proposed hydrogen bonds with distances between donors and acceptors shown. The Ser10 hydroxyl oxygen of HMG-D makes water-mediated interactions with adenine 6 N3 and thymine 7 O4'. The LEF-1 Asn10 makes direct hydrogen bonds to guanine 9 N3 and thymine 8 O2 (in this LEF-1 model).

The above figure is reprinted from an Open Access publication published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd: EMBO J (1999, 18, 6610-6618) copyright 1999.