Figure 1
Overall structure of the EcFtsZ(L178E)–GDP complex. The protein is shown as a ribbon diagram with the N-terminal subdomain (residues 9–178) colored yellow, the connecting H7 helix colored red and the C-terminal subdomain (residues 201–216) colored cyan. S and H indicate strands and helices, respectively. The bound GDP is shown as sticks. Also shown as sticks is residue Glu178, the site of the mutation. The structure is labeled according to the common nomenclature for the tubulin/FtsZ family of GTPases (Nogales et al., 1998). All ribbon diagrams were made using PyMOL (DeLano, 2002). |