Figure 7
From: E-hooks provide guidance and a soft landing for the microtubule binding domain of dynein
Perpendicular component electrostatic force on the MTBD due to the E-hooks reels in and provides a soft landing for the MTBD. The electrostatic force component perpendicular to microtubule interface (the y direction, Fig. S1) plotted as a function of MTBD-microtubule distance. Note that the force for d = 0 Å was omitted from this analysis to avoid excessively large forces resulting from atoms positioned artificially too close to each other in the computation. Also note that the electrostatic force between MTBD and E-hooks was calculated by DelphiForce using all snap shots at each distance, and then the average value is reported here.
