This is really a visual document of what I have found with a single surfactant protein D molecule (image of Arroyo et al, plots made in ImageJ, some programs for image processing include the industry standards (corelDRAW, PhotoPaint, Photoshop and others) and industry standards for signal processing (Scipy, Octave, and excel Templates (Thomas O’Haver, and others).  It demonstrates to me that the known peaks in SP-D are not the only peaks that will influence a model of the structure of that “trimer” “hexamer” “dodecamer” or other “multimer”. Each trimer shows what I believe to be at least 6 peaks on either side of the N termini junction peak (the tallest peak in the center of each of the diagrams below). The plots here are of hexamers – that is, two trimers with C term on either end of the plot (ie mirrored) , and the N termini junction in the center of two trimers.

The set of plots in the ridge plot (plots stacked and staggered, background black) are those obtained from various image and signal processing plots.  Sample plots (from one of the two hexamers of this particular protein (which i call 41-aka-45), are of arm 2). I have colored the peaks that are known  (light orange in center=N term juncture; darker orange on either ends=carbohydrate recognition domains; lighter green=glycosylation peaks; Purple peak=unknown tiny peak in the valley of N term juncture; darker green=unknown peak beaide the glycosylation peak; pink peak=consistent narrow and not tall peak; yellow=neck region, often seen peak that corresponds with the differences in obscurance by the CRD peaks as they may or may not lie over the alpha coiled neck domain.

Lower image=actual plots (some from each arm of the hexamer) to demonstrate how the different colors in the ridge plot have been determined.