Dear all,

I would like to ask for some information/help for a problem I am facing at the moment: I am currently working on a pentameric protein (C5 symmetric) that undergoes a big conformational change (translational & rotational movement) and would like to utilize the morph function in ChimeraX to come up with a good animation for it. For one single protomer the animation works fine – however, for the full pentamer the subunits follow both directions, clockwise and counterclockwise, during their rotational movement which obviously leads to a lot of clashes and therefore does not look very convincing. Since I tried almost all options listed as parameters for the morph (linear & corkscrew method, cartesian true and false, rates, coreFraction, etc.) and it did not affect the direction of rotation at all, I was wondering whether there are additional values I could modify or any other trick that might equalize the movement? Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Raphael

 

P.S.: I would be happy to provide data if it might help solving the problem.