In Silico Insights of L-Glutamate: Structural Features in Vacuum and in Complex with Its Receptor

Figure 2

Dihedral angles in glutamate. The angles show the main degrees of freedom for the backbone (𝜑 and 𝜓 angles) and the side chain (𝜒 angles) of glutamate. The figure shows a ball-and-stick representation of glutamate, which has three 𝜒 angles. The fading conformations in the background illustrate a rotation around 𝜒₁.