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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2010 Nov 12;49(48):10339–10348. doi: 10.1021/bi101428e

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mechanism of the isomerization of the substrate, 5-androstene-3,17-dione, by Δ5-3-ketosteroid isomerase. The pKSI active site hydrogen-bonding network is shown with the Tyr16-substrate hydrogen bond in red, the Asp103-substrate hydrogen bond in blue, and the Tyr57-Tyr16 hydrogen bond in green.