[gmx-users] problem during position restraint simulation

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Tue Aug 11 16:48:04 CEST 2009


Moutusi Manna wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
>             i
> want to simulate a protein solvated in water. I have downloaded the
> protein  coordinate from RCSB  protein data bank (ID 2KB7).
> These has 20 merged coordinate & i have taken conformer #6. Then i
> run pdb2gmx with ffG43a1 & solvate the protein with spc waters.
> Next i energy minimize the system with emtol=150.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Polak-Ribiere Conjugate Gradients converged to Fmax < 150 in 59 steps
> 
> Potential Energy  = -4.1081506e+05
> 
> Maximum force     =  1.3278603e+02 on atom 213
> 
> Norm of force     =  1.1614658e+01
> 
> 
> 
> Performed 72 energy evaluations in total.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That might be OK, but you should actually look at the structures post-EM 
and during the simulation to see if they clue you in to a problem.

Also, rather than leaping straight to NPT, you can start by getting T 
equilibrated with restraints at NVT, relax the restraints at NVT, and 
then relax to NPT to fix the density.

Mark

> With the energy minimized structure i then run position restraint
> simulation, with fc=1000  peptide heavy atom. It gives lots of
> LINCS WARNING, wich involvs mainly backbone C O N H  atoms. Then i
> have added hydrogen bond constraints & NOE distance restraints as
> given in the protein data bank and also added phi psi dihedral
> restraints. Even though i have got the LINCS WARNING involving backbone
> C O N H.
> 
> ------------------my pr.mdp--------------
> 
> title               =  sp position restraining
> 
> cpp                 =  /usr/bin/cpp
> 
> define              =  -DPOSRES
> 
> constraints         =  all-bonds
> 
> constraint_algorithm=  lincs
> 
> lincs_order         =  4
> 
> lincs_iter          =  1
> 
> lincs_warnangle     =  30
> 
> integrator          =  md
> 
> dt                 
> =  0.002    ; ps !
> 
> nsteps              =  250000 ; total 1 ns
> 
> nstcomm             =  1
> 
> nstxout             =  1000
> 
> nstvout             =  1000
> 
> nstfout             =  0
> 
> nstlog              =  1000
> 
> nstenergy           =  1000
> 
> nstlist             =  10
> 
> ns_type             =  grid
> 
> rlist               =  0.9
> 
> rcoulomb            =  0.9
> 
> vdwtype             =  Cut-off
> 
> rvdw                =  1.2
> 
> fourierspacing      =  0.12
> 
> fourier_nx          =  0
> 
> fourier_ny          =  0
> 
> fourier_nz          =  0
> 
> coulombtype         =  PME
> 
> pme_order           =  4
> 
> ewald_rtol          =  1e-5
> 
> optimize_fft        =  yes
> 
> ;distance restraints NMR refinement
> 
> disre               =  simple
> 
> disre_weighting     =  equal
> 
> disre_fc            =  1000
> 
> disre_mixed         =  yes
> 
> disre_tau           =  10
> 
> nstdisreout         =  5000
> 
> ; dihedral restraints NMR refinement
> 
> dihre               =  simple
> 
> dihre_fc            =  1000
> 
> dihre_tau           =  0.0
> 
> nstdihreout         =  5000
> 
> ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
> 
> Tcoupl              =  berendsen
> 
> tau_t              
> =  0.1         0.1
> 
> tc-grps             =  Protein     SOL
> 
> ref_t              
> =  300         300
> 
> ; Pressure coupling is on
> 
> Pcoupl              =  berendsen
> 
> tau_p               =  2.0
> 
> compressibility     =  4.5e-5
> 
> ref_p               =  1.0
> 
> pcoupltype          =  isotropic
> 
> ; Generate velocites is on at 300 K.
> 
> gen_vel             =  yes
> 
> gen_temp            =  300.0
> 
> gen_seed            =  173529
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> -----------in my top file i have added the following lines for distance restraints, dihedral restraints, position restraints......................................
> 
> 
> 
> [ distance_restraints ]
> 
> ; ai aj type index type' low  up1  up2  fac
> 
> ; HBONDS constraints
> 
>   40 80  1     0    2    0.15 0.23 0.25 1.0
> 
>   79 40  1     1    2    0.23 0.34 0.36 1.0
> 
>  .....................................................
> 
> ...........................................................
> 
> ; NOE
> 
>   29  19 1    58    1    0.18 0.50 0.52 1.0
> 
>   42  19 1    59    1    0.18 0.50 0.52 1.0
> 
>   42  29 1    60    1    0.18 0.28 0.30 1.0
> 
>   .....................................................
> 
> 
> ...........................................................
> 
> [ dihedral_restraints ]
> 
> ; ai aj ak al type label phi dphi kfac power
> 
> ;phi
> 
>  7    9    11  
> 16   1   1   -126.0  
> 5   1   2
> 
>  16   18   20   26  
> 1   1   -65.5    5  
> 1   2
> 
>  26   28   30   39  
> 1   1   -61.3    5  
> 1   2
> 
>  .....................................................
> 
> 
> 
> ...........................................................
> 
> ; psi
> 
>  1    5    7   
> 9    1   1   -49.7   
> 5   1   2
> 
>  9    11   16   18  
> 1   1    147.2   5  
> 1   2
> 
>  .....................................................
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ...........................................................
> 
> ; Include Position restraint file
> 
> #ifdef POSRES
> 
> #include "posre.itp"
> 
> #endif
> 
> --------------------------------errors in pr.log-------------------------------
> 
>  .....................................................
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .........................................................
> 
> Max number of graph edges per atom is 4
> 
> There are 130 distance restraints involving 136 atom pairs
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .........................................................
> 
> There are 1 dihedral restraints involving 107 atom quartets
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .........................................................
> 
> Step 122, time 0.244 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
> 
> relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
> 
> max 0.992379 (between atoms 114 and 115) rms 0.042239
> 
> bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
> 
>  atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
> 
>     114    115  
> 90.0    0.1001  
> 0.1992      0.1000
> 
> Constraint error in algorithm Lincs at step 122
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .......................................................
> 
> 
> 
> wating for suggestion to solve this problem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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