[gmx-users] Negative arginine?

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:32 -0600, Eric Jakobsson wrote:
> I don't see what can be learned by arbitrarily making up charge 
> assignments, since they will almost certainly be incompatible with any 
> possible electronic structure for the molecule.
> 
I agree. The proper thing to do is a quantum calculation, first to see
where the proton is (many possibilities!) and second to determine the
charge. Then one should wonder how fast such an Arginine in solvent
would gobble up a new proton (or two)...


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David.
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