Thanks for your invaluable reply to Justin and syma.

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 Justin A.Lemkul wrote :
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>minnale wrote:
>>
>>   Thanks for your prompt reply, according to you for membrane protein 
>> protocols keep restrain only on protein but not on lipid and water, is there 
>> any possibility to move water inside pore of the membrane when keep restrain 
>> only on protein.
>>Could you please tell me
>>Thanks a lot in advance
>>
>
>Anything is possible, given the random nature of MD.  It will depend largely 
>upon how you prepared your system.  If there is a lot of void space around 
>your protein, then water will likely leak in over time, but may be forced out 
>by the hydrophobic lipid tails, if you equilibrate long enough.  If your 
>lipids are nicely packed around your protein (using a method like InflateGRO 
>from Tieleman's site) then this occurrence is less likely.
>
>The most important thing to do is to consult the literature regarding similar 
>systems and take note of what those authors have done.  How did they insert 
>the protein?  How did they equilibrate the system, and for how long?
>
>-Justin
>
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>>On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 Justin A.Lemkul wrote :
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>> >
>> >minnale wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  HI users,
>> >>      I have embedded protein in popc bilayer and ran the minimisation 
>> >> succesfully , before going equilibration I would like to confirm one 
>> >> thing that how to run the equilibration with on which system keep 
>> >> position restrain?
>> >>
>> >>1.we will keep position restrain on all the systems(-DPOSRES_PROTEIN, 
>> >>-DPOSRES_LIPID, -DPOSRES_WATER) at a time ?
>> >>
>> >>or 2. keep position resrain on each system at a time and
>> >>  3.is it require to keep position restrain on water?
>> >>Could you tell me clearly pls
>> >>Thanks alot in advance
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >If you "equilibrate" your system with every element of it restrained, I 
>> >think you will accomplish absolutely nothing.  Typical procedures for 
>> >membrane proteins involve equilibrating with restraints on the protein 
>> >only, allowing the lipids to pack around the protein.
>> >-Justin
>> >
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