Calmodulin

(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
 LYS-75   MET-76  5.0 6.4 25.2 71.0 61.6 51.5 44.8
 MET-76   LYS-77  2.8 5.7 -169.3 4.3 111.6 79.5 21.2
 SER-81   GLU-82  8.9 7.6 -109.4 59.2 44.2 55.1 26.3

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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