@text Kinemage Supplement to Branden & Tooze "Introduction to Protein Structure" Chapter 1 - THE BUILDING BLOCKS Contents of file C1BASIC.KIN: Kin.1- Polypeptide fragment, with rotatable phi, psi, and chi angles (Fig. 1.6) This kinemage shows a 5-residue fragment of polypeptide chain, to show its geometry and atom names and to allow rotation of one residue's worth of the variable dihedral angles Phi, Psi, and Chi. Hydrogen atoms (in brown) are included, so this illustrates the full chemical geometry of a protein. Turn them off (with the "H" button box) to see the heavy atoms alone, more typical of what is directly known for most crystal structures since hydrogen atoms diffract x-rays very weakly. Atoms are depicted in this type of "skeletal" or "stick" representation as the intersections or ends of lines which show the chemical connectivity of the molecule. In this case, non-carbon atoms are marked in color: red for O and blue for N. For a skeletal model, one aspect of the basic physical nature of the molecule - namely the chemical bonding arrangement - is explicitly clear, and the model does not hide parts of itself. On the other hand, another important physical aspect - the packing and steric constraints - can only be inferred by relative position of the atoms. Don't forget to rotate the image often, by dragging with the mouse anywhere in the graphics window. Selected atom labels can be turned on, or the angle labels turned off, with the botton box controls on the right side of the screen. They identify the atom names along the backbone, or they label the variable dihedral angles that determine conformation. (Of course, an atom can also be identified just by clicking on it, but then the residues will have specific numbers, such as 45 for the Phe, rather than being called n, n+1, etc.) The dihedral angles Phi (around the N-Calpha bond) and Psi (arouns the Calpha-C bond) of the central Phe residue can be rotated using the sliders in the righthand panel. Clicking in the bar to right or left of the "thumbmark" will change the angle by 10 degrees at a time; clicking on the right or left arrows will change it by one degree. The lower angle value above the slider changes as you change the angle, while the top one stays at the original value. As you change one of the angles, look for positions at which atoms on either side are too close together (that is what determines the allowed conformations). For instance, try setting phi to 0 and psi to 180 - does that look possible? What bumps? The central Phe (residue n) is shown in cyan with a full sidechain. The Calpha-Cbeta bonds are grouped separately and colored seagreen, both to better illustrate the tetrahedral geometry of the Calpha atom and also to point out that the Cbeta position is fixed with respect to the polypeptide backbone. Were it not for the unique amino acid glycine which lacks a Cbeta, one would probably consider the Cbeta as part of the mainchain rather than the sidechain. View2 looks down the Cbeta - Calpha bond, showing that the starting conformation is one of the three staggered positions of Chi1 expected from simple steric considerations around a carbon-carbon single bond. (One can always return to the starting view by choosing "View1" on the "Views" pulldown menu.) Try rotating Chi1 and Chi2. More advanced tricks you may want to try - From the Menu bar at the top of the screen, pull down the "Other" menu, and select "measures". This activates a way to select atoms in succession and get distance between the last two points, the angle between the last three points and the dihedral angle between the last four points selected. A button box is created on the control strip at the right of the screen that lets one turn the measuring function on and off. (Toggling the button box off, then on, allows a fresh start without drawing a line from the last selection.) Try this to measure specific values of the dihedrals along the mainchain (Phi, Psi, Omega) and/or the dihedrals going out the side chain (Chi 1, Chi 2, etc.). Remember that a dihedral is the rotation angle around the central bond of the 4 atoms which define it. Select "draw new" under Other menu, check "monitor last line", then after returning to the graphics display, hit the "drawlineson" button and make a line, for instance, between O and On+1, then click drawlineson back off. Now as phi and psi angles are changed, the distance of that line will be adjusted and displayed. @kinemage 1 @caption (B&T Fig. 1.6) Polypeptide fragment with rotatable Phi, Psi, and Chi angles. Mainchain is white, Calpha-Cbeta bonds are seagreen, Phe sidechain is cyan, and H atoms are brown. N and O atoms are marked in blue and red. 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