Hello Ranti, If the question is: will ChimeraX add a membrane? Sorry, no, you would need to use some other method to generate the membrane, although you may be able to display the result in ChimeraX. I have heard of some web servers, but I have not tried any of these, so I can't give a specific recommendation or advice, nor do I know if they will work with your specific structures. For a full atomic membrane: CHARMM-GUI membrane builder <https://charmm-gui.org/?doc=tutorial&project=membrane> MemGen (just the membrane, you have to put the protein in yourself) <https://biophys.uni-saarland.de/software/memgen/> For two planes where each plane is a series of dummy atoms: PPM web server <https://opm.phar.umich.edu/ppm_server> (see also this example of results displayed in ChimeraX: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/features.html#axesplanes> ) Or if you just want to draw some kind of 2D schematic in which you can place an image of your proteins, maybe BioRender? <https://www.biorender.com/> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jun 3, 2024, at 9:08 AM, Ranti Dev Shukla via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hello,
Greetings from NIH, Maryland. I am trying to make FRET for G-proteins. I put CFP protein within G.alfa2 on a loop between two nearby helixes and YFP protein on the N-terminal of G-beta. I made the complex using Alphafold but how to see this complex along with the membrane? Is there some command for it please?
I would appreciate your kind help.
Thanks Ranti