Figure 1.

Overall structure of DesV. The crystals of DesV utilized in this investigation contained two dimers in the asymmetric unit. One of these is shown as a ribbon representation in (A). The local twofold rotational axis relating one subunit to the other is perpendicular to the plane of the paper. A stereo-representation of Subunit I is displayed in (B). The PLP cofactor is depicted in a stick representation. The first several residues at the N terminus are not visible in the electron density map.