Relative orientation maps from simulations of isolated dimers.

(A) atomistic simulation (400 ns); (B) CG simulation with ELNEDYN network (spring constant: 500 kJ mol⁻¹nm⁻²); (C) CG simulation with ELNEDYN network (spring constant: 200 kJ mol⁻¹nm⁻²); (D) CG simulation with IDEN elastic network. Projections of the X (left panels), Y (middle panels), Z (right panels)-axis of capsomer 2 on the xy plane when capsomer 1 is aligned to the z axis (see Methods section). Coloring according to the normalized probability of finding these relative orientations. The blue circles are drawn with a radius of the longest internal axis of the capsomer.