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Figure 5.
FIGURE 5. Conservation correlates with the strength of synthetic defects with pob3-Q308K. Top, residues that are identical among at least 70% of the 31 Spt16 homologs aligned (see Fig. 1) are indicated in red, revealing clustering near the canonical binding/active site cleft for prolidase, methionine aminopeptidase, aminopeptidase P, and creatinase (asterisk). The full surface is shown on the left, and the loop residues 266-274 are removed in the middle panel to reveal the enclosed tunnel region. The right panel shows a view rotated 180° about the vertical axis. Bottom, severity of the synthetic defect when combined with pob3-Q308K is indicated (Table 2); severe defects are shown in red, moderate defects in orange, and mild defects in yellow. If residues were tested individually and in multiple mutations, only the score from the single mutation is used here. Otherwise, the score for the complex mutation is assigned to all residues altered. WT sequences are indicated along with the number of the first residue. The orientations are the same as in the top panels.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2008, 283, 5058-5068) copyright 2008.