Tropomyosin

(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-532   LEU-533  12.0 11.8 16.0 -14.8 60.7 64.8 -8.7
 LEU-533   GLU-534  8.7 8.5 -0.2 8.7 172.7 167.9 78.5
 GLU-534   LYS-535  10.0 9.8 -15.7 9.1 100.3 85.3 -66.5

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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