Thomas Schlesier wrote:

>>/ Thank you.
> />/ But i have one last question:
> />/For epsilon_rf i use the relative permittivity of the medium. I simulate
>in
> />/vacuum so epsilon_rf would be 1?
> /GROMOS ff is not parameterized for vaccum simulations of the b-something
> version ... have look at the paper.
>
>
> So i should use ffG43b1 instead of the other GROMOS96 force fields?
That would be the right choice for the GROMOS43 ff series.
AFAIK the only difference between vacuum force field and normal force field in GROMOS is the protonation state of the side-chains (please check that this is still correct in the current force fields). For vacuum simulations of relatively small proteins I would recommend using no cut-off at all. Since there is no direct experimental information about protein structure in vacuum, there is no reason to use the solution values of the cut-offs. Without the shielding of the water everything is different. Another interesting problem is to determine which residues to protonate in the gas phase, see e.g. Patriksson et al. Biochemistry 46 pp. 933-945 (2007) http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?bi061182y/B6CC.




> In the GROMACS manual i found that the cut-off-distance must at least be 1.4
>nm for the GROMOS96 force field.
Never believe what is written in a manual :))
It is always better to keep the values that are used for parameterization
(the one I gave you) when using a force field. The idea that bigger = better
does not work ... you change the balance of forces and thus the properties
of the force field.

> So can i use: type = cut-off; rlist = 1.4 and r_x = 1.7?
> (the problem is that the only reference i find for ffG43b1 is the GROMOS
>manual, and that's not free avaible)
Any paper from van Gunsteren group or Alan Mark groujp (GROMOS developers)
would describe the simulation setup: no need of the manual for this.

> Thanks for an answer
> Thomas
>
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I looked in some older papers but found no values for epsilon_r and _rf. From older posts of this mailing list I got the impression that epsilon_r = 1 and epsilon_rf the value of the relative permitivity of the medium. In the case of a simulation in vacuum epsilon_rf would be also 1 and then I have no correction from the reaction field, also grompp tells me that epsilon_r = epsilon_rf would be meaningless with a reaction field. So I'm puzzeld. If both epsilon values have the same value, is it then equal to normal cut-offs (type = cut-off)?
Sorry for the many questions.
Thomas


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