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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Sep 15;132(36):12711–12716. doi: 10.1021/ja104591m

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The PSMA/ARM-P2 complex reveals a previously unreported arene-binding cleft. (A) Global view of PSMA with a close-up of arene-binding site. Residues making up the arene-binding cleft are labeled in cyan. The entrance lid (residues 542–548), which resides in an open conformation in the ARM-P2 complex, is indicated as a red loop. Overlaid on this complex is the entrance lid in its closed conformation (colored blue), which would come into steric conflict with the linker region of the inhibitor. (B and C) Close-up images of the urea binding sites in structures containing both open and closed entrance loops (colored in blue). Residues forming the DNP binding site (W541, R511, and R463) are colored red. In all panels, structural data for PSMA with a the closed entrance lid comes from the complex with the small urea-based inhibitor DCIBzL (PDB ID – 3IWW).33 The zinc ions in the active site are labeled as orange spheres and the ARM-P2 carbons are colored gold. The DCIBzL carbons in B and C are colored purple.