Actually, PyMOL cannot bend cylindrical helices. The workaround is to break them manually:
load $PYMOL_PATH/test/dat/1tii.pdb as cartoon set cartoon_cylindrical_helices # Insert a break into the longest helix (only slightly bent) cartoon skip, C/216/CA Cheers, Warren PS. This is the CCP4 mailing list. The PyMOL Users mailing list is at: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=4546 ________________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kianoush Sadre-Bazzaz Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] curved cylindrical helices in PyMOL? Hi Susanne, On the Pymol menu go to Setting --> Cartoon --> Cylindrical Helices Kianoush --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Susanne Ressl <[email protected]> wrote: From: Susanne Ressl <[email protected]> Subject: [ccp4bb] curved cylindrical helices in PyMOL? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:34 AM Dear ccp4bb-people, I would like to depict my protein with curved cylindrical helices using PyMOL. (I know and use bobscript "rod fitted" for this purpose and like it.) Anyway, I wonder if anybody has a script or knows how to tell PyMOL to follow the curvature of helices in the cylindrical cartoon representation? Many thanks in advance. Best wishes, Susanne ************************************ Susanne Ressl MPI Biophysics Department Structural Biology Max-von-Laue Strasse 3 60438 Frankfurt Tel:+49-69-6303-3052 or +49-69-6303-3037
