Hello Qinhong--

> 
> I'm calculating a protein with a small molecule ligand. As previous
> crystal structure show a critical hydrogen bond between them while
> my previous calculation didn' reveal this, I added a tight NOE
> (1.5-2.5 A) to pull the Hbond donor and acceptor together. However,
> the result structure shows they seem don't quite like each other --
> the hydrogen and oxygen atom stay at the upper limit 2.5 A. They
> don't want to get nearer although the crystal structure shows they
> can get as close as 1.8 A.

You might first check if the donor/acceptor pairs appear as VDW
violations in the .viols file. That would indicate that the nonbonded
parameters are preventing them from getting closer. If this is the
problem, you can add an NBFIx statement to the parameters to change
the nonbonded interaction for only these atoms types.

> 
> I check my script and I'm now wondering whether the electrical term
> is included in my potential list, because I don't see a potential
> term called elec in my script attached. And I also want to know is
> there a list of Xplor potential terms so I can just pick the one I
> need? This is used by XplorPot function. Thank you.
> 

Do you think the Coulomb term would help? It is usually not used
without solvent. If you really think this will help you might try to
refine with explicit solvent, working from
eginput/gb1_rdc/wrefine.py. The most comprehensive list of potential
terms is probably in the tutorial

  https://nmr.cit.nih.gov/xplor-nih/doc/current/python/tut.pdf

and the old XPLOR manual

  https://nmr.cit.nih.gov/xplor-nih/doc/current/xplor

but, it's probably a good idea to have something in mind before you go
hunting.

best regards--
Charles
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