Fab Fragment, Antibody A5b7

(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
 VAL-104   GLU-105  4.0 3.9 -21.3 30.0 86.5 82.9 4.3
 GLU-105   VAL-106  0.7 0.8 11.9 21.3 17.8 31.2 76.7
 VAL-106   LYS-106A  2.6 2.6 -34.5 38.0 105.6 119.3 4.6
 LYS-106A   ARG-107  4.0 3.8 -7.0 4.5 112.3 95.2 13.3
 ARG-107   THR-108  7.6 7.5 -14.1 -7.4 111.3 120.0 -26.3
 THR-108   VAL-109  10.7 10.6 2.0 -3.2 139.4 133.0 4.6
 VAL-109   ALA-110  13.0 12.9 10.3 -6.7 111.6 115.5 -4.8

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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