On 2/16/13 8:37 PM, aixintiankong wrote:
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From: aixintiankong <aixintiank...@126.com>
Date: 2013-02-16 23:54:51
To: gmx-users@gromacs.org
Subject: some waters in active site of receptor
Dear,
there are three waters in active site of receptor, mediating the binding
of ligand with target protein. i want to study the three waters how to affect
the binding of ligand with target protein and the contribution to the stability
of the system.
In order to study the role of the waters, i want to compare some diffrent
system models. The first model have all a waters in active site ,the second
model have two waters and the third have one water , the fourth have none water
in acitve site. however, i don't know how to construct simulation models of
those. when i use the genbox program to add solvent to my system, i find there
are many other waters being added to the active site and i think the waters
which are added by genbox program maybe replace the initial three waters and
then i can't study the waters in active site.
please hlpe me and then tell me how to do it
genbox does not replace water molecules, it only adds more. Your original three
waters should always be the first three listed after the end of the
protein/ligand coordinates. You could always temporarily rename them (from SOL
to HOH, for instance), run the solvation, and verify this yourself. Running
genion is the trickier part because the waters of interest stand a small chance
of being randomly replaced, though the same renaming strategy could apply.
As for the intent of the study, that's harder to say, because if there's enough
room for more water to flood in, what makes those waters so special? They could
easily be exchanged for others that might diffuse in. I'm afraid I don't have
any brilliant insights as far as experimental design goes.
-Justin
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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
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