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SUBMITTER: Bray JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3244061 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bray Jenelle K JK Weiss Dahlia R DR Levitt Michael M
Biophysical journal 20111220 12
We present what to our knowledge is a new method of optimized torsion-angle normal-mode analysis, in which the normal modes move along curved paths in Cartesian space. We show that optimized torsion-angle normal modes reproduce protein conformational changes more accurately than Cartesian normal modes. We also show that orthogonalizing the displacement vectors from torsion-angle normal-mode analysis and projecting them as straight lines in Cartesian space does not lead to better performance than ...[more]