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Figure 4
The surface potentials of the three related proteins. (a) P. horikoshii RNA ligase, (b) T. thermophilus RNA ligase, (c) CPDase. The two histidines modelled as alternate conformations in T. thermophilus RNA ligase were reduced to the conformation most closely matching the equivalent residues in the P. horikoshii RNA ligase. The orientation of the two RNA ligases is identical and placed to enhance the positive patch of the T. thermophilus RNA ligase. The orientation of the CPDase was chosen to match the active-site histidines of the RNA-ligase structures. |