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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Close up view of the hydrogen bond network around the buried Asp19 and the adjacent loop Ile25-Arg30. (a) The consensus structure found in ten out of 13 monomers, with the peptide bond preceding Pro28 in the cis conformation. Shown is monomer A of the tetragonal crystal form. (b) The same region in the monoclinic crystal. (c) The same region in monomers E and G of the orthorhombic crystal (monomer E is shown). The peptide bond preceding Pro28 in (b) and (c) is in the trans conformation. The conformational changes that are observed in this loop have very little effect on the solvent accessibility of the buried side-chains of Asp19, Gln21 and Arg31. The electron density maps correspond with the 2 F[o] -F[c]maps of the final refined models. A number of side-chains and their corresponding electron density were omitted for clarity.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (1999, 285, 1667-1677) copyright 1999.