Figure 7
Cubic crystal of phosphoribulokinase from R. sphaeroides (PDB entry 1a7j) with its channel volume visualized with a cutoff radius of 2.24 Å. (a) The whole unit cell with the main channel. The 24 symmetric copies enclose a sphere of solvent that is only reachable by a small channel with a bottleneck radius of 2.24 Å. (b) The corresponding bottleneck, in which two of the four Ser248 residues are depicted. Images were created with UCSF Chimera (Pettersen et al., 2004). |