Figure 4
Structural simulation of a modulation. (a) A small section of the protein was extracted out into the solvent channel and then modulated as a function of distance in y (or x2). (b) The modulation was a simple rotation using two atoms (black spheres) to create a rotation axis, and the gray spheres show the atomic positions that are monitored in Figs. 5 and 6. The gray atoms are on parts of the chain with the greatest amount of modulation. (c) View looking down the rotation axis. (d) The modulation is shown as a rainbow of the seven overlaid modulated chains in the supercell from blue (−15°) to red (+15°). The average position is shown in the stack as a gray molecule located just to the right of the light blue structure and left of the orange structure. |