Figure 4.

(a) Distance between the configuration of N − 3 sites other than the active sites and the configuration in the dominant conformation. Two MC trajectories are shown: the trajectory for the case that the active sites are fixed to the target configuration, S_a = S_b = S_c = 1 (dotted line) and the trajectory for the case that the active sites are fixed to the nontarget configuration, S_a = S_b = −1, S_c = 1 (solid line). (b) Distance between the configuration of N − 3 sites other than the frustrated sites and the dominant configuration. The trajectories are for the case that the frustrated sites are fixed to the correct configuration (dotted line) and to the wrong configuration (solid line). The sequence is the same as in Fig. 2b.