[gmx-users] bilayer leaflets separating

[David van der Spoel]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 16:35 -0600, eric jakobsson wrote:
> Some time ago we did liquid hexane simulations and found that using 10 
> angstrom LJ cutoff, the liquid evaporated---analogous to the leaflets 
> separating.  It did not happen with 15 angstroms, but we had to go to 20 
> angstroms before the density leveled off. So we believe that 10 angstroms 
> is too short for the LJ cutoff, and we always use 20 angstroms. This seems 
> at first surprising, since LJ falls off as the 6th power, but in contrast 
> to the Coulomb potential there is no shielding by opposite charges---all 
> the the long range LJ is attractive.

Is this even when you turn on the pressure correction for the cut-off?
(dispcorr = enerpres)

I would think it would be mainly pressure related.

> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> Eric
> 
> At 09:03 PM 11/11/2004, you wrote:
> >I am experiencing something very strange: the leaflets of my bilayer
> >are continuosly separating, thus creating a large gap in the middle of
> >the bilayer. I ran the simulation for 100 ps and the gap was about 10
> >nm. I tried this same simulation many times, in several machines, and
> >I cannot get it to be stable. Would anyone have any idea what may be
> >the problem? This is a simulation for a small bilayer with 64 and 3846
> >water molecules (from Tieleman's webiste). The simulation are in the
> >NPT ensemble (1 bar and 323 K), with 1.0 nm and 1.8 nm cut-off for the
> >LJ and eletrostatic interactions, respectively. Periodic conditions in
> >all directions. The initial velocity were generated at the start of
> >the simulation. I am using the GROMOS forcefile for the lipid and SPC
> >water. The strangest thing is that I can use this same forcefield and
> >conditions for the simulation of a large bilayer (128) and I do not
> >encounter this problem. I would greatly appreciate input/comments.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >                 --Amadeu
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> Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
> Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biophysics and 
> Computational Biology, Beckman Institute, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, and 
> Neuroscience.
> Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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