Figure 1.

Catalytic centre motifs of nucleotide cyclases. (A) Centre motif of experimentally tested GCs in plants. The residue (red) in position 1 does the hydrogen bonding with the guanine, the amino acid in position 3 confers substrate specificity and the residue in position 14 stabilises the transition (GTP/cGMP). The Mg²⁺/Mn²⁺-binding site is C-terminal (green). In the derived motifs (B and C) specific for ACs, position 3 (blue) has been substituted to [DE] to allow for ATP binding.