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. 2013 Aug 6;105(3):691–698. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.06.040

Table 2.

TM helix orientation calculated from last 10 ns of restrained MD

S1/M1 S1/M2 S2/M1 S2/M2 PDB: 2KSJ
TM helix tilt (deg)a 28.2 ± 1.7 29.2 ± 1.4 29.0 ± 1.3 29.4 ± 1.4 27.0 ± 1.2
TM helix rotation (deg)b 188.7 ± 11.9 185.5 ± 10.0 190.8 ± 8.4 190.8 ± 8.6 192.1 ± 13.2
a

Defined as the angle between the helix principal axis and the lipid bilayer normal.

b

Defined as the angle between the perpendicular vector (rs) from the helical axis to G28 Cα atom and the projection vector (zp) of the z axis onto the plane made by the second and third principal axes. The sign of the rotational angle becomes positive if zp × rs is in the opposite direction to the helical axis, or negative otherwise (41).