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MD simulation has been used to study the movement of the flap region of HIV-1 protease with a ligand [ 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] . The flaps initially opened to an all-atom RMSD of 25 Å within 200 ps and became completely open at the end of a 10 ns simulation.
As the plane continues to dive, two flaps on the tail point in opposite directions--one to dive, one to climb.
Heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990, this Arabic sentence--in English, "I put my trust in God"--was uttered by Gamil al-Batouti, the relief co-pilot, just before the autopilot was shut off and the flaps adjusted to send the plane into a dive.
The van der Waals, bond, angle, dihedral, and improper dihedral parameters for all the ligands were adopted from the Hetero-compound Information Centre-Uppsala HIC-Up http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hicup [ 55 ] . The water molecule under the flaps present in all complexes was included in all steps throughout this study except for 1hvr, where the structural water was removed in the preparation of the protease to be docked with the ligand (the ligand of 1hvr, which is a urea-based inhibitor, does not bind a water molecule in this position).
Then a third player acts as arbiter and decides which one wins (in this case, a butterfly, because the butterfly flaps its wings and sets into a motion a chain of events that ends with Rupert Murdoch slipping on a banana peel and falling into a cement mixer).