Dear Justin,

Is there any way to get just the interaction energy between protein and
water? In this case, the energy should not contain the self or inherent
energy.

Thanks & regards,
Saumyak

On 27 March 2017 at 11:27, Saumyak Mukherjee <mukherjee.saumya...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you very much.
>
> On 27 March 2017 at 02:22, Justin Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 3/26/17 4:49 PM, Saumyak Mukherjee wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Justin,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> I have tried that already. I stripped out the protein trajectory using
>>> trjconv, created an appropriate .tpr file using tpbconv (I am using
>>> GROMACS
>>> 4.5.6), and recalculated energy using mdrun -rerun.
>>>
>>> But does the resulting .edr file include only the inherent energy of the
>>> protein or does it have information of the interaction energies with the
>>> solvent as well? That precisely is the point I am confused about.
>>>
>>> I tried this with a protein in water system and also simulated a dry
>>> protein separately to compare. The energies were way to different from
>>> each
>>> other. Does it mean that the solvent-protein interaction energies are
>>> also
>>> involved?
>>>
>>>
>> If you have a protein-only trajectory and a protein-only .tpr file,
>> there's no possible way for there to be any sort of protein-solvent
>> interaction energy. The energies of a "wet" and "dry" protein system should
>> be extremely different.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
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Prof. Biman Bagchi's Group
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012

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