SLOW MODES

The Slowest Mode Modes 2 & 3    Mode 4          

Modes 9 & 10

The color codes are green, cyan, blue, magenta, pink and yellow in the order of increasing mobility. White lines represent the locus of hinge bending region (the most severely constrained residues). The slowest modes indicates a central hinge bending in region stem region of HA. In modes 2 & 3, the HA1 globular domains enjoy large size fluctuations while the fibrous stem remains almost intact.

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