On 9/20/12 6:52 AM, reising...@rostlab.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
Hi,
  now I tried it without any restriction and still the LINCS warnings occur.
Since it is always the hydrogen atom where the huge force lies on I had
the idea just to remove the hydrogen atom to find out whether another atom
will occur to have such a high force on or everything went fine. And
indeed, without the hydrogen atom there is no problem during the MD run.
Even when I fix all the other atoms.

I can not see why this occurs. I already looked at the residue with pymol
and I could see that there is no other residue or atom clashing with it.


I suspect what is happening is that the topology is not stable. If removal of the H atom leads to stable trajectories, then it is experiencing some interaction that leads to the crash. Likely what is happening is that it is experiencing a very strong 1-4 interaction with the other phosphate oxygens and is being pulled very hard away from the oxygen to which it is bonded, leading to deformed geometry and the LINCS warnings. There are two possible solutions:

1. Modify the 1-4 interactions through an appropriate pair term.
2. Add exclusions to the topology between the H atom and each of the O atoms to which it is not bonded.

I would recommend testing with a very simple system of TYP in water to validate that the topology is stable and rule out other factors.

-Justin

The residue looks like this:

ATOM    955  N   TYP    65      27.310  23.150  27.670  1.00  0.00
   N
ATOM    956  CA  TYP    65      26.870  23.320  26.300  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    957  C   TYP    65      27.920  23.760  25.300  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    958  O   TYP    65      28.060  23.210  24.210  1.00  0.00
   O
ATOM    959  CB  TYP    65      25.740  24.340  26.170  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    960  CG  TYP    65      24.530  23.740  26.830  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    961  CD1 TYP    65      24.410  23.760  28.220  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    962  CD2 TYP    65      23.510  23.180  26.050  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    963  CE1 TYP    65      23.290  23.210  28.840  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    964  CE2 TYP    65      22.380  22.630  26.660  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    965  CZ  TYP    65      22.260  22.630  28.070  1.00  0.00
   C
ATOM    966  OH  TYP    65      21.160  22.100  28.670  1.00  0.00
   O
ATOM    967  P   TYP    65      20.298  21.422  27.722  1.00  0.00
   P
ATOM    968  OP1 TYP    65      21.003  21.245  26.467  1.00  0.00
   O
ATOM    969  OP2 TYP    65      19.920  20.126  28.251  1.00  0.00
   O
ATOM    970  OP3 TYP    65      19.106  22.218  27.498  1.00  0.00
   O
ATOM    971  H   TYP    65      27.210  23.914  28.325  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    972  HA  TYP    65      26.485  22.366  25.933  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    973  HB1 TYP    65      25.524  24.543  25.119  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    974  HB2 TYP    65      26.010  25.270  26.669  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    975  HD1 TYP    65      25.154  24.234  28.821  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    976  HD2 TYP    65      23.603  23.156  24.973  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    977  HE1 TYP    65      23.200  23.222  29.916  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    978  HE2 TYP    65      21.603  22.189  26.053  1.00  0.00
   H
ATOM    979  H1P TYP    65      20.357  20.996  25.802  1.00  0.00
   H


The topology entry in the aminoacid.rtp file looks like this:

[ TYP ]
  [ atoms ]
      N    N           -0.516300    1
     CA    CT           0.275503    2
     HA    H1           0.008223    3
     CB    CT          -0.354052    4
    HB1    HC           0.110326    5
    HB2    HC           0.110326    6
     CG    CA           0.119728    7
    CD1    CA          -0.198938    8
    HD1    HA           0.137143    9
    CE1    CA          -0.284884   10
    HE1    HA           0.177179   11
     CZ    C            0.452616   12
     OH    OS          -0.534452   13
      H    H            0.293600   14
    CE2    CA          -0.284884   15
    HE2    HA           0.177179   16
    CD2    CA          -0.198938   17
    HD2    HA           0.137143   18
      C    C            0.536600   19
      O    O           -0.581900   20
      P    P            1.393213   21
    OP1    OH          -0.752821   22
    OP2    O2          -0.822464   23
    OP3    O2          -0.822464   24
    H1P    HO           0.423316   25


[ bonds ]
      N     H
      N    CA
     CA    HA
     CA    CB
     CA     C
     CB   HB1
     CB   HB2
     CB    CG
     CG   CD1
     CG   CD2
    CD1   HD1
    CD1   CE1
    CE1   HE1
    CE1    CZ
     CZ    OS
     CZ   CE2
     OS     P
    CE2   HE2
    CE2   CD2
    CD2   HD2
      C     O
     -C     N
      P   OP1
      P   OP2
      P   OP3
    H1P   OP1


[ impropers ]
     -C    CA     N     H
     CA    +N     C     O
     CG   CE2   CD2   HD2
     CZ   CD2   CE2   HE2
    CD1    CZ   CE1   HE1
     CG   CE1   CD1   HD1
    CD1   CD2    CG    CB
    CE1   CE2    CZ    OH


The LINCS problems lie between the oxygen atom of the phosphate where a
hydrogen atom is bound to (OP1) and the hydrogen atom bound to the oxygen
atom of the phosphate (H1P).

Do you see where the problem lies?
Thank you,
  Eva



On 9/18/12 8:58 AM, reising...@rostlab.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
Okey,
   now I tried it without any fixed residues. But still the energy after
the
minimization is not very low and I still get the LINCS warnings.

The mdp file I use for the minimization looks like this:

define                  = -DPOSRES

Restraints during minimization generally restrict motion in the same way
that
freezing does.  Again, this is a potential barrier to sufficient
minimization.

integrator              = steep
emtol                   = 10
nsteps                  = 1500
nstenergy               = 1
energygrps              = System
coulombtype             = PME
rcoulomb                = 0.9
rvdw                    = 0.9
rlist                   = 0.9
fourierspacing          = 0.12
pme_order               = 4
ewald_rtol              = 1e-5
pbc                     = xyz


the mdp file for the md run looks like this:

define          = -DPOSRES
integrator              = md
dt                      = 0.001
nsteps          = 5000
nstxout         = 100
nstvout         = 0
nstfout         = 0
nstlog          = 1000
nstxtcout               = 500
nstenergy               = 5
energygrps              = Protein Non-Protein
nstcalcenergy   = 5
nstlist         = 10
ns-type         = Grid
pbc                     = xyz
rlist           = 0.9
coulombtype             = PME
rcoulomb                = 0.9
rvdw            = 0.9
fourierspacing          = 0.12
pme_order               = 4
ewald_rtol              = 1e-5
gen_vel         = yes
gen_temp                = 200.0
gen_seed                = 9999
constraints             = all-bonds
tcoupl          = V-rescale
tc-grps         = Protein  Non-Protein
tau_t           = 0.1     0.1
ref_t           = 298     298
pcoupl          = no



The output of the minimization run is:

Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 15 steps,
but did not reach the requested Fmax < 10.
Potential Energy  = -7.9280412e+05
Maximum force     =  1.0772942e+04 on atom 979
Norm of force     =  9.6685356e+01


Note that this outcome is even worse than before.  The maximum force is
now over
10,000.




The output of the MD run is:

Step 1031, time 1.031 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 0.001431, max 0.010707 (between atoms 976 and 979)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
      976    979   81.6    0.1272   0.0970      0.0960



As you should expect.  If you can't get a reasonable minimization, the MD
will
always crash.


The atom 979 is the hydrogen atom on the phosphate. There has to be one
hydrogen atoms because it is protonated once. The other atom 976 is the
oxygen atom where the hydrogen atom is bound to.
The bounding parameters for this kind of binding were already there. I
didn't add them.

I already did it for another phosphorylation on another position in this
structure. And here I also got many LINCS errors. And again the problem
is
the connection between the hydrogen atom and the oxygen atom.

But I do not understand why.

Remove all restraints/freezing/whatever in the .mdp file and try the EM
again.
If it still does not converge to a reasonable value, then there are two
potential problems:

1. The topology is flawed and thus the structure cannot be run stably
2. The structure cannot accommodate phosphate in this location and due to
unresolvable clashes, the runs fail

-Justin

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