[gmx-users] Problem in pullx file

Aswathy ammasachu at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 13:58:45 CEST 2010


Let me explain.

 Consider the channel of a membrane protein, r57 is a residue at the
extracellular loop in this channel. I docked my ligand to the start of the
channel. ie; just below the r57. (Here the I have not started from the
solvent, but at the mouth of the channel , just below r 57..) Then I pulled
the ligand through the channel(parameters as in the first mail). ie; pulled
in such a way that, initially  ligand was just below r57, then moved away
from r57.

Plz check some data from the pullx file.

0.0000    7.74891    -0.754818
0.0200    7.74388    -0.754379
0.0400    7.73726    -0.752573
0.0600    7.73032    -0.756692
0.0800    7.72422    -0.747781
0.1000    7.72041    -0.754858
0.1200    7.71691    -0.744501
..............................................
..............................................
..............................................
1099.8601    8.45571    5.46432
1099.8800    8.45551    -5.46076
1099.9000    8.45817    -5.46827
1099.9200    8.46075    5.46829
1099.9401    8.46317    -5.46782
1099.9601    8.46545    5.46577
1099.9801    8.46565    -5.47014
1100.0000    8.46651    5.46001

Thanks,
Aswathy

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Aswathy wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    Aswathy wrote:
>>
>>        Dear Gromacs users,
>>
>>        I am doing SMD of a ligand pathway, and then want ot do the PMF
>>        analysis. Initially I pulled the ligand from extra to
>>        intracellular side of the protein. The pull code used are given
>>        below.
>>
>>        pull                     = umbrella
>>        pull_geometry            = distance
>>        pull_dim                 =  N N Y
>>        pull_start               = yes
>>        pull_nstxout             =  10
>>        pull_nstfout             =  10
>>        pull_ngroups             =  1
>>        pull_group0              =  r_57
>>        pull_group1              =  r_C1
>>        pull_rate1               =  0.005
>>        pull_k1                  =  1000
>>
>>        here group0 is one residue at the extracellular region and r_C1
>>        is the side chain Carbon atom of the ligand.
>>
>>        My question is , the total length of the channel is almost 40
>>        Angstrom and as per my knowledge, when we did the pulling the
>>        pullx file will give the coordinate of the ligand through the
>>        channel.
>>
>>
>>    Not quite.  Look at the data labels in the .xvg file.  The pullx
>>    file contains the coordinates (in all of the pull directions) for
>>    the reference group, and then the distance between the reference and
>>    the pull group along all pull axes.
>>
>> I am still confused.   I have measured the distance between the reference
>> group(residue outside) to the other end of the channel. that is around
>> 40Angstrom. if so, 1dz should give around 40 Angstrom? Because  once the
>> pulling completed,  the distance between group0 and group1 , should be equal
>> to the length of the channel.
>>
>>
> I guess I still don't understand your setup.  Are you pulling a ligand
> through a a channel and then beyond the reference group, out into some
> solvent?  Or are you just pulling the length of the channel, such that the
> ligand never exits the channel.
>
> If you're pulling through the entire channel and then out into the solvent,
> the sign of dZ is going to change.  It might help if you post the first few
> output lines of pullx.xvg (not the headers and stuff, the actual data), as
> well as the last few.  That way I can understand exactly what you're dealing
> with.
>
>
>  Sorry that i am repeating the same query, i think I am still preconceived
>> about this. Otherwise could you please suggest some good tutorial for the
>> same . I will read that.
>>
>>
> There is a pulling tutorial on the Gromacs website, but nothing that deals
> with what you're doing.  Tutorials are designed to generally guide the user
> through a larger procedure, not explain every small piece of analysis.
>
> -Justin
>
>
>>
>>
>>        Even though ligand reaches the opposite end of the channel, in
>>        pullx file I am getting around 19 Angstrom in total.
>>
>>        Again I calculate the g_dist of the ligand and the center of the
>>        channel, it shows around 40 Ang in total . Please find the links
>>        provided
>>
>>
>>    You're measuring two different things.  The pullx distance is given
>>    relative to your pull_group0, which you said is a residue on one
>>    side of the channel.  Then you're using g_dist to measure to the
>>    center of the channel.
>>
>>        Am I misunderstanding anything about the pullx file.
>>
>>        Could you please suggest me where thing get wrong?
>>
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6N2IyNjNhM2UtMzRiZC00MTJmLTg5ODItODJlMzQ5YTM3OGMy&hl=en
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6N2IyNjNhM2UtMzRiZC00MTJmLTg5ODItODJlMzQ5YTM3OGMy&hl=en
>> >
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6N2IyNjNhM2UtMzRiZC00MTJmLTg5ODItODJlMzQ5YTM3OGMy&hl=en
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6N2IyNjNhM2UtMzRiZC00MTJmLTg5ODItODJlMzQ5YTM3OGMy&hl=en
>> >>
>>
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6ZWRlZGJkOTgtMGEwYi00MzE0LThiZTEtM2JjNmJkMWU5NDYy&hl=en
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6ZWRlZGJkOTgtMGEwYi00MzE0LThiZTEtM2JjNmJkMWU5NDYy&hl=en
>> >
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6ZWRlZGJkOTgtMGEwYi00MzE0LThiZTEtM2JjNmJkMWU5NDYy&hl=en
>>        <
>> http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1PyTWWGrqt6ZWRlZGJkOTgtMGEwYi00MzE0LThiZTEtM2JjNmJkMWU5NDYy&hl=en
>> >>
>>
>>
>>    For some reason these documents are inaccessible.  It is probably
>>    better to use a site like photobucket and post actual images.
>>     Google is great, but not everyone has an account and I've also been
>>    told that their usage agreement is troubling, in that anything you
>>    upload to Google Docs becomes property of Google.  Not something
>>    I've looked into, but I don't ever post my research data there.
>>
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>
>>        Thank you,
>>        --         -Aswathy
>>
>>
>>    --     ========================================
>>
>>    Justin A. Lemkul
>>    Ph.D. Candidate
>>    ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
>>    MILES-IGERT Trainee
>>    Department of Biochemistry
>>    Virginia Tech
>>    Blacksburg, VA
>>    jalemkul[at]vt.edu <http://vt.edu> | (540) 231-9080
>>
>>    http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
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>>
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