(B) Overview of the 8-oxo-dG:dATP insertion complex. The 39-kDa catalytic domain (8-kDa subdomain not shown for clarity) is colored by subdomain: fingers (salmon), palm (yellow) and thumb (purple). The polymerase is in complex with a 1-nt gapped 16-mer oligo (grey) containing a templating 8-oxo-dG (green). The primer terminal ddC and the incoming ddCTP are shown in cyan and magenta, respectively. Key residues that form the nascent base pair binding pocket (N513 and R517) and are involved in catalysis (D427, D429 and D490) are shown in black. The catalytic metal A and the nucleotide binding metal B are shown in red and neon, respectively. 