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Chem3D Users Manual - CambridgeSoft

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Administrator<br />

2. Adjust the slider to the desired resolution.<br />

The new radius is the middle value listed at the<br />

bottom of the Radius tool.<br />

Setting Surface Mapping<br />

The Mapping Property provides color-coded<br />

visualization of Atom Colors, Group Colors,<br />

Hydrophobicity, Partial Charges, or Electrostatic<br />

Potential (derived from partial charges)<br />

superimposed upon the solvent-accessible surface.<br />

Surface Color is color you have chosen with the<br />

Surface Color tool. Atom Color is based on the<br />

displayed atom colors, which may or may not be the<br />

default element colors. Element Color is based on<br />

the default colors in the Elements Table. Group<br />

Color is based on the colors (if any) you specified<br />

in the Model Explorer when creating groups.<br />

Hydrophobicity is displayed according to a<br />

widely-used color convention derived from amino<br />

acid hydrophobicities 1 , where the most<br />

hydrophobic (lipophilic) is red and the least<br />

hydrophobic (lipophobic) is blue. The following<br />

table shows molecule hydrophobicity.<br />

Amino Acid Hydrophobicity<br />

Cys 2.0<br />

Trp 1.9<br />

Ala 1.6<br />

Thr 1.2<br />

Gly 1.0<br />

Ser 0.6 Middle (White)<br />

Pro –0.2<br />

Tyr –0.7<br />

His –3.0<br />

Gln –4.1<br />

Asn –4.8<br />

Glu –8.2<br />

Lys –8.8<br />

Amino Acid Hydrophobicity<br />

Phe 3.7 Most hydrophobic (Red)<br />

Met 3.4<br />

Ile 3.1<br />

Leu 2.8<br />

Val 2.6<br />

1. Engelman, D.M.; Steitz, T.A.; Goldman,<br />

A., “Identifying nonpolar transbilayer<br />

helices in amino acid sequences of<br />

membrane proteins”, Annu. Rev. Biophys.<br />

Biophys. Chem. 15, 321-353,<br />

1986.<br />

Asp –9.2<br />

Arg –12.3 Least hydrophobic (Blue)<br />

The Partial Charges and Electrostatic Potential<br />

(derived from the partial charges) properties are<br />

taken from the currently selected calculation. If you<br />

have performed more than one calculation on the<br />

model, you can specify which calculation to use<br />

from the Choose Result submenu of the Calculations<br />

menu.<br />

Solvent Accessible Surface<br />

The solvent accessible surface represents the<br />

portion of the molecule that solvent molecules can<br />

access. When viewed in the ball and stick<br />

representation, a molecule may appear to have<br />

many nooks and crannies, but often these features<br />

68 •Displaying Models <strong>CambridgeSoft</strong><br />

Molecular Surface Displays

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