[gmx-users] Prepping Docking Complexes

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Mon Mar 30 19:20:24 CEST 2009



Jack Shultz wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Thanks for previous help. Especially Justin. I got the amber03 and
> tip3 water models working through my BOINC project now. But if I want
> to simulate a docking complex, I'm running to some errors preparing
> it. I have not done extensive research on this yet, but I'm wondering
> how I can prep these ligand-receptor complexes so they are acceptable
> to pdb2gmx. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program pdb2gmx_d, VERSION 4.0.3
> Source code file: pdb2gmx.c, line: 893
> 
> Fatal error:
> Chain identifier 'B' was used in two non-sequential blocks (residue
> 975, atom 7970)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 

That means you've split apart chain B.  If you look at your structure file, 
you'll find:

ATOM   7934  NE2 HIS B 489     126.270  67.930  67.564  1.00 47.43    -0.221 NA
ATOM   7935  OXT HIS B 489     132.243  66.924  65.753  1.00 43.53    -0.646 OA
HETATM 7937  C   ACT B1490     116.586  88.801  86.875  1.00 67.39     0.186 C
HETATM 7938  O   ACT B1490     115.409  88.588  86.537  1.00 67.73    -0.647 OA
HETATM 7939  OXT ACT B1490     117.292  89.696  86.359  1.00 67.35    -0.647 OA
HETATM 7940  CH3 ACT B1490     117.160  87.930  87.956  1.00 67.32     0.109 C
TER    7941      ACT B1490
ATOM      1  O1  0.0 d 000     125.675  63.107  72.217  0.00  0.00    -0.348 OA
ATOM      2  C1  0.0 d 000     125.252  63.738  73.407  0.00  0.00     0.292 C
ATOM      3  O3  0.0 d 000     124.554  64.931  73.121  0.00  0.00    -0.348 OA
ATOM      4  C4  0.0 d 000     124.318  65.780  74.249  0.00  0.00     0.179 C
ATOM      5  C6  0.0 d 000     123.970  64.972  75.543  0.00  0.00     0.180 C
ATOM      6  C7  0.0 d 000     123.396  63.571  75.233  0.00  0.00     0.183 C
ATOM      7  C8  0.0 d 000     124.363  62.784  74.308  0.00  0.00     0.204 C
ATOM      8  C5  0.0 d 000     125.509  66.741  74.382  0.00  0.00     0.198 C
ATOM      9  O4  0.0 d 000     126.073  66.914  73.114  0.00  0.00    -0.398 OA
ATOM     10  H8  0.0 d 000     125.582  66.394  72.473  0.00  0.00     0.209 HD
ATOM     11  O5  0.0 d 000     125.109  64.795  76.367  0.00  0.00    -0.390 OA
ATOM     12  H9  0.0 d 000     124.827  64.626  77.270  0.00  0.00     0.210 HD
ATOM     13  O7  0.0 d 000     122.126  63.780  74.623  0.00  0.00    -0.390 OA
ATOM     14  H14 0.0 d 000     122.027  63.183  73.878  0.00  0.00     0.210 HD
ATOM     15  O6  0.0 d 000     123.684  61.791  73.545  0.00  0.00    -0.388 OA
ATOM     16  H13 0.0 d 000     124.232  61.529  72.802  0.00  0.00     0.210 HD
ATOM     17  C2  0.0 d 000     125.085  63.646  71.046  0.00  0.00     0.187 C
ATOM     18  C3  0.0 d 000     123.849  62.820  70.568  0.00  0.00     0.183 C
ATOM     19  C12 0.0 d 000     123.639  62.990  69.062  0.00  0.00     0.204 C
ATOM     20  C11 0.0 d 000     124.937  62.624  68.251  0.00  0.00     0.288 C
ATOM     21  O10 0.0 d 000     126.135  62.786  69.012  0.00  0.00    -0.349 OA
ATOM     22  C10 0.0 d 000     126.147  63.869  69.925  0.00  0.00     0.180 C
ATOM     23  O2  0.0 d 000     124.007  61.412  70.818  0.00  0.00    -0.390 OA
ATOM     24  H4  0.0 d 000     124.394  60.991  70.048  0.00  0.00     0.210 HD
ATOM     25  O11 0.0 d 000     123.229  64.326  68.826  0.00  0.00    -0.388 OA
ATOM     26  H22 0.0 d 000     123.738  64.694  68.100  0.00  0.00     0.210 HD
ATOM     27  O9  0.0 d 000     125.021  63.316  67.003  0.00  0.00    -0.369 OA
ATOM     28  H19 0.0 d 000     125.159  62.682  66.295  0.00  0.00     0.212 HD
ATOM     29  C9  0.0 d 000     127.585  64.061  70.409  0.00  0.00     0.198 C
ATOM     30  O8  0.0 d 000     128.253  62.824  70.315  0.00  0.00    -0.398 OA
ATOM     31  H15 0.0 d 000     127.660  62.167  69.944  0.00  0.00     0.209 HD
OA^M
ATOM   7873  CB  PRO B 482     123.510  77.736  70.316  1.00 27.76     0.034 C ^M
ATOM   7874  CG  PRO B 482     124.070  78.915  71.107  1.00 27.76     0.027 C ^M

Chains need to be continuous, so don't insert molecules within other molecules!

-Justin

> Workunit information
> http://hydrogenathome.org/result.php?resultid=1412984
> 
> Original complex
> http://hydrogenathome.org/sample_results/2559_1uwq_1238414317.pdb.tar.gz
> 

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Justin A. Lemkul
Graduate Research Assistant
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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