On 13/02/2011 6:07 PM, TJ Mustard wrote:
On February 12, 2011 at 10:14 PM Mark Abraham
<mark.abra...@anu.edu.au> wrote:
On 13/02/2011 5:03 PM, TJ Mustard wrote:
On February 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM Mark Abraham
<mark.abra...@anu.edu.au> <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au> wrote:
On 13/02/2011 3:57 PM, TJ Mustard wrote:
On February 12, 2011 at 5:35 PM Mark Abraham
<mark.abra...@anu.edu.au> <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au> wrote:
On 13/02/2011 11:49 AM, TJ Mustard wrote:
Hi all,
I have been testing the ability of taking a sphere of a protein
around a ligand, and positionally restrain the specified alpha
carbons. I was hoping to keep non connected protein chains from
drifting apart. I have been able to run these md/fep jobs, but I
get huge interaction energies for the ligand, which has no
positional restraints on it. I also don't restrain any atoms
within the rvdw, rcoulomb and rlist radii. Am I thinking this is
a possibility when it is physically impossible to simulate?
I doubt it.
Currently I am selecting all residues around the ligand that
have an atom within 20 Angstroms. I then save this as a pdb file
and then run it through pdb2gmx, manually create a posres.itp
file for each "chain" with their first and last residue's alpha
carbon. Once I turn off these positional restraints the FEP
energies drop down to "normal" levels.
Does anyone have an idea what is happening?
And if you do, can you please give a recommendation?
I'd guess you're not restraining how you think you are :-) Bear
in mind that position restraints are indexed relative to a
[moleculetype] (and must be #included there), and not the whole
system.
First I tried setting this globally it the .top file with the
numbering corresponding to the atoms in question there, but found
that the .top file only runs the solvent molecules and all of my
reference atoms were outside the parameters (atoms 1-3 for water).
By default -DPOSRES will only restrain solvent because a) that's
all it's meant to do, because b) that [position_restraints] block
is local to the SOL [moleculetype], like I said.
Then I setup the restraints argument in the
Protein_chain_A.itp.itp file to reference the
posre_Protein_ends_chain_A.itp file I made.
; Include Position restraint file
#ifdef POSRES_PROTEIN
#include "posre_Protein_ends_chain_A.itp"
#endif
In the posre_Protein_ends_chain_A.itp file I entered the alpha-C
atoms (2 total both the first residue and last) for the protein.
[ position_restraints ]
; atom type fx fy fz
5 1 1000 1000 1000
262 1 1000 1000 1000
Well, that should work, if you put this in the right [moleculetype]
block. Whether that's enough of a restraint can't be said.
Well my major problem is the energy being transmitted about 12
angstroms away into my FEP molecule. I have consistently gotten an
interaction energy of around ~130 kJ/mol. With these restraints on
the energy spikes to ~125000 kJ/mol. Since I have my rvdw, rcoulomb,
rlist being 1.0 (nm), do I need to move these constraints father
away from the ligand?
Hence my thinking that you're somehow applying restraints to the
wrong [moleculetype] and the FEP is amplifying the problem. Can you
run normal MD normally, with and without restraints?
I have ran these jobs without the restraints, and the FEP energy is
~130kJ/mol. I can run the md (actually in sd) but I am not sure what
you mean.
When trouble-shooting, eliminating sources of problems is critical. If
you can run a non-FEP simulation with your position restraints, then
they are probably not the source of the problem. If FEP without
restraints works, and non-FEP with restraints works, and FEP with
restraints doesn't, then someone can work out what to try next. Until
then, the simplest hypothesis is that your restraints don't work (either
by design or implementation flaws). :-)
Mark
Thank you,
TJ Mustard
Mark
The combination of g_select and genrestr is probably a more
reliable and documentable way to generate your position restraints.
I tried using genrestr directly and found that the selection was
limited to the presets. I then tried to run a make_ndx to select
the residues that were the starting and terminating ends, but I
don't know how and if this program can do this task. I could
manually find the residue numbers and input them directly but
knowing that I was looking to restrain 6 atoms I decided to do it
manually.
I thought you were trying to get all the alpha carbons outside a
sphere, sorry. For just 6 atoms, sure do it by hand.
I have yet to look at g_select, as I am just seeing if this idea
would work before I start making a automated script for this.
The point here is that it is straightforward to use g_select to
"make an index group of alpha carbons further than a given distance
from some location" and now you can use genrestr to make position
restraints for that whole group.
I have just looked into this and I will hopefully be able to use
this for the other projects I have.
Would there be a better way to hold these atoms in the respective
locations. I could hold there distances constant.
Also possible, but (IIRC) the atoms have to be part of the same
[moleculetype], which is awkward for inter-chain restraints. Either
way, you have to address whether your restraints are perturbing the
dynamics.
Well I will stay away from this for now then.
Thank you,
TJ Mustard
Mark
TJ Mustard
Email: musta...@onid.orst.edu <mailto:musta...@onid.orst.edu>
TJ Mustard
Email: musta...@onid.orst.edu
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