Figure 2

Schematic representation of the organization of the three catalytic site motifs in LACTB and the different PBP-βL classes. A set of founding members of each PBP-βL class (Additional file 1), classified according to Ghuysen 1997, and Massova and Mobashery 1998 [3,4], were used to calculate the median inter-motif distances in number of amino acid residues. Accession numbers refer to the Swiss-Prot database. The catalytic site motifs are highlighted in green and invariant amino acids are higlighted in yellow. Inter-motif distances were measured from the serine in the -SXXK-motif to the serine/lysine and lysine/histidine of the second and third catalytic site motif, respectively. Numbers within brackets is the largest difference from the median value within each class. PBP-βL classes forming separate clades [3] are marked with square brackets. Abbreviations: PBP, penicillin-binding protein.