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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2>Hi
Sir/Madam</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2>I want to create
models which consist of multiple protein molecules, in which the individual
protein molecules are fused together to form a single structure. Something like
the scanning 3D maps produced by electron microscopes. Is it possible to do this
with the Muliscale Models tool or some other tool or method in
Chimera?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2>An example of what I
want to do appears in the cutaway rotavirus illustration (Fig. 1A) in Chen and
colleagues paper, titled, “Molecular interactions in rotavirus assembly and
uncoating seen by high-resolution cryo-EM” (PNAS, vol. 106. no. 26, p. 10644).
In this illustration the yellow triangular shaped structure are multiple VP7
molecules fused together.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2>Regards</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2>Brian
Grech</FONT></P>
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