[gmx-users] Electric potential over the membrane

[David]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 10:22, Itamar Kass wrote:
>     O.K. David, no petty, what should I do to get an electric fields ad 
> described in by Robertson & Tieleman at "The molecular basis of voltage 
> gating of OmpF porin" (Biochem Cell Biol. 2002;80(5):517-23. ) of about 300mV?
>           thanks, Itamar.

haven't read that, but if your membrane is, say, 3 nm wide, and you want
a potential of 300mV, then 3 nm times 100 mV/nm would give you that,
wouldn't it?

> 
> >On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 09:01, Itamar Kass wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > It's a shame to me, but although I looked at the manual few times, I 
> > did not
> > > understand how to used an electric potential.  I want to enter to my 
> > simulation
> > > of peptide in a membrane an electric potential of ~100mV in the z 
> > direction (the
> > > membrane normal).  My question is about the units, when I put
> > > ;Electric field
> > > E_z = 1  0.1  0.0
> > > in my mdp file, does I get 100mV potential in my simulation?
> >no, you get 100 mV/nm electric field.
> >
> > >    Thanks, Itamar.
> > >
> > >
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