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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Stereo view of a C'' trace of the GAR Tfase with only those side-chans displayed that are conserved in all known sequences (Aimi et al.; I990). The conserved esidues coored in yellow line a narrow cleft between the 2 domains f the enzyme. The cleft stretches from the bound phosphate ion (red) to Asp144 and is probably the binding pocket and active site of the enzyme. The other conserved residues are shown in green. None of these conserved residues are located in the dimer interface. The Figure was calculated with the program MCS (Connolly, 1985).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (1992, 227, 283-292) copyright 1992.