Fig. 4.

Alignment of E. coli, M. tuberculosis, and M. smegmatis RpsE protein. a The alignment of the protein structures of the RpsE protein from E. coli from PDB ID 2QOU [26] (orange), the homology model from M. tuberculosis (blue), and M. smegmatis (green) developed in Schrödinger using Prime [27, 28]. Residues that are different in the RpsE protein loop between species are shown as sticks and are labeled. b The sequence alignment of the RpsE proteins [49, 50]. Black highlights represent identical residues, gray highlights represent similar residues, and the red boxes highlight the RpsE protein loop