AtomSets

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Predefined Atom Sets

Jmol recognizes and uses several keywords or tokens for several purposes: commands in the scripting language, colors, etc. Among them, keywords for predefined atom sets:

By element names:

carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, sulphur, etc.

By type of molecule:

protein, nucleic, dna, rna, water, solvent, ligand...

Parts in proteins:

Backbone

Inclusion in this set is determined by atom id, as follows:

  • Peptide bond: N, H (bound to N), CA (alpha carbon), HA (bound to CA), C (carbonyl carbon), O or O1 (bound to C)
  • In glicine: either H1 and 1HA or 1HA and 2HA.
  • Termini:
    • OXT : second carbonyl oxygen on C-terminus
    • 1H, 2H, 3H : terminal amino hydrogens

Sidechain

Defined as (not backbone).

Parts in nucleic acids:

Backbone

Inclusion in this set is determined by atom id, as follows:

  • Phosphate groups:
    • phosphorus: P
    • oxygens bound to phosphorus: O1P, O2P
  • Atoms in pentose:
    • carbon ring: C1', C2', C3', C4', C5'
    • hydrogens attached to carbon ring: H1', 1H2', 2H2' (only DNA), H3', H4', 1H5' and 2H5'
    • hydroxyls: O2', O3', O4', O5', 2HO' (H on 2'-hydroxyl, only RNA)

Note: some (many?) files label pentose atoms with asterisk instead of prime signs. How does Jmol cope with this? Certainly, given the asterisk is a wilcard, if one uses "select C3*" will get pentose carbons either labeled with prime or asterisk!.

  • Termini:
    • O5T : 5'-terminus oxygen (no phosphate)
    • H5T : 5'-terminus hydrogen (attached to O5T or O5')
    • H3T : 3'-terminus hydrogen (on 3'-hydroxyl)
  • Atoms in bases:
    • ring, both purines and pyrimidines: N1, C2, N3, C4, C5, C6
    • ring, purines: N7, C8, N9
    • ring, pyrimidines: O2
    • substituents on ring:
      • N4 unique to C
      • N2 unique to G
      • N6 unique to A
      • C5M unique to T
      • O6 in G and I
      • O4 in T and U
      • S4 unique to thio-U

Sidechain

Defined as (not backbone).

Bases

Synonim of sidechain.