[chimerax-users] Show active site metal and ligand in morph

[Yifan Wang]

Dear chimeraX developer,

I am a graduate student from university of Texas at San Antonio. I’m trying to make a movie to compare two of my structures (resting state and substrate bound) using the function “morph”. But there is a problem, I very appreciate if you can help me figure this out.

As show in Figure 1, I have two structures superposed. The resting state (nude) contains an active site metal ion coordinated by three residues and 3 water molecules. And the substrate bound (blue) also contains a metal coordinated by the same residues, a remaining water molecule, and a new ligand as my substrate.

After I entered command “morph #1,2 frames 60”, I got the result of Figure 2. However, the active site metal ion and the water and substrate are missing. I want to show the active site changes between model 1 and 2. Model #3.1 seems keep the metal coordination bonds but I can’t make it present even with “show”. So my question is how to show the metal and the corresponding ligands in morph?


Regards,
Yifan Wang

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