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  8.9 6.9 23.7 77.6 83.2 46.2 44.7
 MET-76   LYS-77  6.3 5.2 -175.5 3.3 122.7 74.3 -27.9
 SER-81   GLU-82  5.1 4.4 -116.7 58.9 56.2 71.2 38.6
 GLU-82   GLU-83  8.6 7.3 -35.5 17.1 131.9 133.9 -2.2

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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