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. 2016 Dec 12;10(12):e0005217. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005217

Fig 5. The 3D structure of CPS.

Fig 5

The 3D structural model of CPS was predicted from the previously published chemical structure [11] using ChemBio3D software with MM2 energy minimization mode. In this simplified structural assessment, only a ~22 kDa fragment (which consists of 100 units of the mannoheptose, panel A) was drawn and used for the model prediction. The 3D structural model was visualized using PyMOL (panel B). The predicted structure shows that CPS has a rod-like shape with a dimension (diameter, d x length, L) of 1.2 nm x 36 nm, which means a full-length CPS molecule may approach 490 nm in length.