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The two flaps fold over the inhibitor to form a tunnel-shaped active site and are held in this close position by hydrogen bonding from Ile50 and Ile50' NH groups of the enzyme to a water molecule, which in turn is hydrogen bonded to the P2 and P1' CO groups of the inhibitor [ 24 ] . The bonding stabilizes the flaps in a closed position and inhibits the activities of the enzyme.
As the plane continues to dive, two flaps on the tail point in opposite directions--one to dive, one to climb.
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).
In this study (Figure 2), the flaps opened up and moved away from the x-ray structure from 0.54 Å at 0.1 ps to 3.30 Å RMSD at 10 ps (the flap RMSD was calculated from residue 40 to 60 of each protein chain).
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.