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Contrary to this, in the case of the ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolases and the adenoviral proteases there is a tendency for the sheet to be incorporated into a scaffold with other α-helical elements forming a mixed α + β structure.
A structural comparison of these proteins indicates that the nuclease active site of the LAGLIDADG domains is contained in a specific amino-terminal α-helical extension packed against the core (β 2 α) 2 domain common to all these proteins (Figure 1b) [ 30].
The domain is typically between 90 and 150 amino acids long and, in the p24 family, it comprises almost the entire lumenal region, with the exception of an α-helical extension of approximately 50 amino acids that precedes the transmembrane segment.
The structure prediction program PhD [ 23 24 ] suggests that the COOH region of the M-domain has an α/β conformation, similar to that expected from its sequence homology to the integrin I-domain, whereas the NH 2 -extension is predicted to be largely α-helical.
Examination of these structures shows that they are principally composed of large α-helical hairpins that form coiled coil structures or stretches with successive shorter α-helices.