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. 2008 Nov 20;27(24):3322–3331. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2008.243

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Illustration of the contacts involving the ternary complex, the GAC and the SRL. (A) A ribbon representation of the tryptophanyl complex (red: EF-Tu, pink: tRNA^Trp green: L11; light blue: RNA in the GAC; dark blue: SRL. (B) Illustration of the binding residues of EF-Tu (58 and 84) and the SRL (nts 2661–2663), shown in a different orientation from (A). (C) Stereo view of superimposed three ternary complexes together with the GAC and the SRL. Purple: phenylalanyl complex; orange: tryptophanyl complex; green: leucyl complex.