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Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Stereoview of the active center of hTK1. Water molecules are red balls, hydrogen bonds are dashed lines. (A) Bound feedback inhibitor dTTP with hydrogen bonding network. The conformation of dTTP in its two binding modes was derived from the F[o]–F[c] omit electron density map here contoured at 3σ (green). The 40% binding mode is shown in a semi transparent mode. (B) The nucleotide is bound by the tight interactions with protein residues. Hydrogen bonds to main chain atoms and stacking of the pyrimidine ring between Phe101, Phe133 and Tyr181 are responsible for the high substrate specificity.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies: FEBS Lett (2005, 579, 1376-1382) copyright 2005.