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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Three-dimensional structure of human pancreatic α-amylase with marked domain architecture. The calcium ion is shown as a blue sphere; the chloride ion is shown as a yellow sphere. The catalytic site residues are shown as red sticks and are magnified in the black box (PDB 1HNY).