Antibody Light Chain Fab

(All numbering and residues are taken from first PDB file)

Bending Residue Dihedral Analysis

Residue
i
Residue
i+1
Distance of hinge axis to residue i in conformer 1
(A)
Distance of hinge axis to residue i in conformer 2
(A)
Change in psi (i)
(deg)
Change in phi (i+1)
(deg)
Angle of psi(i) axis to hinge axis conformer 1
(deg)
Angle of psi(i) axis to hinge axis conformer 2
(deg)
Percentage Progress
 LEU-104   GLU-105  6.9 7.1 -5.2 2.5 82.4 78.9 -9.8
 GLU-105   LEU-106  3.1 3.5 -3.7 16.2 151.1 146.6 29.7
 LEU-106   LYS-107  1.1 0.6 -25.1 25.4 107.9 110.8 24.0
 LYS-107   ARG-108  1.9 2.6 -7.6 3.6 100.1 96.3 0.4

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Graph shows rotational transition at bending residues and can be used to identify hinge bending residues.
Probably only informative for interdomain rotations greater than 20 degrees