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Atomic detail of the active site of the open (left) and closed (right) conformations of Taq polymerase (in blue surface representation) complexed with the DNA, depicted in licorice representation (primer in red, template in gray, incoming dCTP in yellow). Only protein regions within 7 Å of the DNA bases shown are represented. The hydrogen atoms on the sugar-phosphate backbone are omitted for clarity.
