Research Article

Relative Movements of Domains in Large Molecules of the Immune System

Figure 8

Eigenvectors switching orientations between frames. (a) Eigenvectors of first frames. (b) Eigenvectors of central frames and . If calculated from the atomic coordinates, the first eigenvectors (v 1, w 1: blue) result with almost opposite orientations in the first frame but very similar orientations in the central frames of each domain. Note that eigenvectors refer to different frames and , respectively, but atoms of the molecule are plotted only once. Coloring: v 1, w 1: blue; v 2, w 2: red, and v 3, w 3: yellow.
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