Figure 8
From: Three dimensional shape comparison of flexible proteins using the local-diameter descriptor
Proteins with large deformation. The figure shows two proteins with PDB, 1MI7(top) and 2WRP(bottom). The protein in (A) is transformed into the one in (B) by twisting the long chain (marked by the ellipse) together. The surface regions of the protein in (B) (marked by the ellipse) touch each other, which makes the shape of the protein in (A) deviate a lot from the protein in (B). In this case, the LD descriptor is not able to make a consistent measurement of those two proteins.