30 Jul
2021
30 Jul
'21
10:57 a.m.
I am trying to show a single sphere at c-alpha carbons for some point mutants that i designed. When I use the command: show /a:473,476,477 atoms I can see all the atoms in chain A for residues 473, 476, 477. Using: show /a:473,476,477@cb atoms I can show "two spheres" for the c-alpha and c-beta carbon. When I use: show /a:473,476,477@ca atoms nothing happens and i don't see any spheres.
If I show the full atom and then do: hide /a:473,476,477@ca* atoms
Just the c-alpha sphere gets hidden.
Why is it that i can't just show the c-alpha spheres? Unfortunately for my figure i make silhouettes of my model and so i can't just hide the other atoms by making them fully transparent