Hi Laura - You can also choose single atom selection mode through the menu: click Mouse > Selection mode > Atoms and then click your alpha carbon atom. However, it can be tricky to hit the right atom if you're only looking at a cartoon representation, so I usually prefer to use the PyMOL command line as Osvaldo mentioned with something like:
``` select mutant, myprotein and resi 2 show spheres, mutant and name CA ``` Hope that helps. Cheers, Jared On Aug 30, 2016, at 8:18 AM, Smith, Laura <laura.j.sm...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:laura.j.sm...@ucl.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi, I’m pretty new to Pymol and not that great with all the syntax etc. I am wanting to easily show where a mutation is located in cartoon model. I’ve tried to label the residues with spheres but it generates more than one dot and that’s not what I want. I just want one single sphere/circle/dot localised to an atom on the structure for me to label myself. Basically like figure 2A in this paper >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326319/ Thanks, Laura ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net>) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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