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A Method to Visualize Conformational Changes in Proteins    

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Citation Info:
Cockrell, G. M. & Kantrowitz, E. R. "ViewMotions Rainbow: A New Method to Illustrate Molecular Motions in Proteins". J. Mol. Graph. Model. 40, 48-53 (2013).


The ViewMotions Server can produce a representation of a conformational change in a protein in a visually intuitive way using a spectrum of color in indicate the molecular motion (e.g. ViewMotion rainbow images). The Server can be used in one of two ways:

  1. Two PDB IDs from the Protein Data Bank corresponding to a protein conformational change. The appropriate chain letter must be indicated.
  2. Two PDB files can be uploaded representing the beginning and ending coordinates of a protein conformational change. The appropriate chain letter must be indicated.

General Usage: The two x-ray structures should have identical or almost identical sequences. The two pdb files should have the same number of residues. However, C-terminal or N-terminal deletions in one or the other chain is allowed, but internal deletions cannot be handed.


Fields designated by (*) are required.

Enter Two PDB IDs:
        PDB ID #1:
Chain:  
        PDB ID #2:
Chain:  
Enter Two PDB files:
        PDB File #1: Chain:  
        PDB File #2: Chain:
Alignment Method:

Four alignment methods are available

Sequoia(Default) A global optimized alignment, see the Sequoia Website for more details.
Fatcat2 Fatcat is a procedure for the "Flexible structure AlignmenT by Chaining Aligned fragment pairs allowing Twists. This method is an excellent approach to use for comparing flexible protein structures.(Li, et al, (2020) Nucleic Acid Res. 48, W60-64). A Fatcat Server is available
Profit Based on the program by Professor Andrew C. R. Martin's group and used in the Profit Server.
RMSDStandard least-squares RMSD fit (Kabsch, W. (1976) Acta Crystallogr. A32, 922-933.

Enter an email address & project name, then submit

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Project Name (*):
 
    

Acknowledgements

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CNS AT Brunger, PD Adams, GM Clore, P Gros, RW Grosse-Kunstleve, J-S. Jiang, J Kuszewski, N Nilges, NS Pannu, RJ Read, LM Rice, T Simonson, GL Warren, "Crystallography & NMR System (CNS), A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination", Acta Cryst.D54, 905-921(1998)
Chimera EF Pettersen, TD Goddard, CC Huang, GS Couch, DM Greenblatt, MC Meng, TE Ferrin, "UCSF Chimera: A Visualization System for Exploratory Research and Analysis" J. Comput. Chem. 2004 Oct;25(13):1605-12
ChimeraXEC Meng, TD Goddard, EF Pettersen, GS Couch, ZJ Pearson, JH Morris, TE Ferrin,"UCSF ChimeraX: Tools for structure building and analysis" Protein Sci. 2023 Nov;32(11):e4792

Copyright 2012 & 2024 GM Cockrell & ER Kantrowitz
Email: evan.kantrowitz@bc.edu