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Figure 5.
FIGURE 5. Comparison of CAO xenon binding sites. a, overlay of CAO xenon sites deposited in the PDB with a monomer of the HPAO/Xe complex. The backbone of HPAO is displayed and colored by domain: blue stick, D1; yellow stick, D2; green ribbon, D3. Xenon sites from individual complexes are coded by color (red, PSAO (PDB code 1w2z); yellow, PPLO (PDB code 1rky); blue, AGAO (PDB code 1rjo) magenta, HPAO (PDB code 2oqe)), except surface-bound xenon sites, which are displayed as gray spheres (31). The top inset shows the amine channel. The bottom inset shows a proposed molecular oxygen pathway identified in this study. The active site is shown in stick, and the copper is shown as a green sphere. b, the HPAO D3 -sandwich domain viewed from the dimer interface (90° rotation, cf. view in a). Only the xenon sites in the internal D3 -sandwich and close to the anteroom are shown. Colors are the same as in a, and arrows indicate the direction of molecular oxygen movement to the active site using the proposed pathway. The figure was generated using Pymol (20).

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2007, 282, 17767-17776) copyright 2007.