[gmx-users] Re: Reasonable for drug molecule using united atom topology?

[Eric Jakobsson]

Rough rule of thumb: Linear hydrocarbons are o.k. for all atom but cyclic 
hydrocarbons are not.  Evidence:  You can replicate properties of liquid 
linear hydrocarbons with united atoms but can't do it for benzene.  For 
benzene you must use all atom.  Basic reason is as Vojtech says: you can't 
describe cation-pi interactions with united atom, so where they are 
important, united atom does not work.  Another way of putting it: united 
atom vdw does o.k. with dipole-dipole via sixth-power attractive term, but 
can not replicate important quadrupole interaction such as generated by a 
ring compound.

Eric

At 10:07 AM 1/21/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> > Hi,  everyone:
> >
> > Has anyone done the drug related analysis using united atom topology for
> > drug molecule? Is that all right for using united atom topology rather
>than
> > using all atom topology for drug molecule? has someone published paper
> > related to using united atom topology of drug molecule and get reasonable
> > results? I just want to make sure whether there are published reference to
> > support to use united atom topology of drug molecule for the study.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Yuhua
> >
>I think that higher is a "protein-like" character of the drug, better is
>performance of
>united-atom model. I would expect it to performe well on peptide and
>peptidomimetic
>drugs. United-atom force filed would in my opinion fail if there is a
>significant role of
>cation-pi, CH-pi etc. interaction that can be (somehow) treated in all-atom
>model.
>
>Vojtech Spiwok
>ICT Prague
>
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Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of 
Biochemistry
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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(Currently on leave to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, 
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Computational Biology and Chair of the NIH Biomedical Information Science 
and Technology Initiative Consortium, but maintaining my research lab at 
Illinois by periodic commuting.  My usual schedule is four days a week at 
NIH and three days a week at Illinois.)