User:Wayne Decatur/Moving Components or Parts of Structures

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This describes how to do this in Pymol and assumes you initate a session with the console containing the menubar.

Using Pymol commands to do this in commands is described at the Modeling and Editing Structures page at the Pymol Wiki.

Manually:

To translate and/or rotate a separate chain within a solved structure relative other chains: Lock chains to remain in place using side menu?????

Under the 'Mouse' menu select, 'three button editing'.

Use the ???? to move.

To translate and/or rotate part of a chain in a structure relative the rest without: Select part to move and split it off from the original structure either using commands as outlined on the Modeling and Editing Structures page or by selecting the interested section (using sequence bar or selection commands) and making it a separate object????? VERIFY THIS AND EASIEST WAY TO NOT HAVE THAT PART DUPLICATED.???

Now you essentially do as in the first part to translate and/or rotate this object relative the other structural components. However, while the moving part won't simply be a separate chain, but a seperate object to Pymol, most commands and actions are the same.

If you want to move parts of chains relative the rest no longer maintaining the original structural constraints, see my page on using Pymol to generate unfolded structures.

Supporting pages:
Modeling and Editing Structures page
Page with info on editing structures