... [18], cowpea[19], and poppy [20,21].In the present study, the first insights into the secon-dary and tertiary structure of PLD a2 from cabbageare given. The surface structure of the enzyme wasinvestigated ... C2domain and four conserved regions (I–IV) specific for the PLD superfamily, where regions II and IV are twocopies of the HxKx4Dx6GSxN (HKD) motif [10,11]. The H, K and D residues of theses ... illustrates the quality of the experimental data(Fig. 2B).Reconstruction of the overall shape of the PLDa2from the X-ray scattering data was achieved by the ab initio modeling program dammin [24]. The...