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Chapter 5: The Conformation<br />

Explorer: economical prediction of<br />

large scale protein hinge bending<br />

motions<br />

Overview<br />

In this final chapter, we build on the flexibility prediction work presented in earlier<br />

chapters and show how it is used in an essential way to predict large scale hinge bending<br />

motions in proteins.<br />

Significant advances have been made on the problem of predicting thermodynamically<br />

accessible alternate conformations of proteins, given a single set of protein structural<br />

coordinates. And yet, the motions involving the most extensive conformational changes<br />

remain beyond the reach of economical prediction for most proteins. We now describe<br />

how to generate alternate conformations of hinge bending proteins. The first step of the<br />

method consists of predicting the location of the hinge between domains, and the second<br />

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