[gmx-users] Solvating protein

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri Jul 9 19:36:04 CEST 2010



Sai Pooja wrote:
> Now I use genion and it says no ions to add?
> 
> Using a coulomb cut-off of 1 nm
> No ions to add and no potential to calculate.
> 
> command used: genion -s ions.tpr -neutral -pname NA+ -nname -CL- -o 
> solions.gro -p finalnoss.top
> 

You haven't told genion to add anything.  Use -np and/or -nn as appropriate.

-Justin

> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Sai Pooja <saipooja at gmail.com 
> <mailto:saipooja at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I checked topology file but going with grompp makes sense. Thank you.
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu
>     <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         Sai Pooja wrote:
> 
>             Well thats the thing. I have checked my pdb files. All
>             residues have
> 
> 
>         There aren't charges in a .pdb file, unless you've somehow added
>         them into one of the fields yourself.  The file you need to
>         check is your topology.  A running value of the net charges is
>         given in the [atoms] directive.  Charges are assigned by pdb2gmx
>         based on what is expected in the .rtp file and what you chose to
>         assign in terms of protonation state.
> 
> 
>             either 0 or integer net charges. The number 0.9999994 seems
>             like a rounding off error especially since the output of
>             genbox says that the system has zero net charge. Again, I
>             encounter this no-zero net charge
> 
> 
>         genbox reads coordinate files, so I don't know how any charge it
>         prints is meaningful.  It tells me there is a zero charge on a
>         lysozyme system that I know has a +8 charge (regardless of
>         whether or not I pass it a topology as well), so don't believe
>         genbox.  Believe grompp.  The magnitude is indeed due to small
>         rounding errors.  It should be interpreted as -1.
> 
>         -Justin
> 
>             when I run grompp with an mdp file for energy minimization
>             with the protein( excluding hydrogen ) restrained.
> 
>             I am using the charmm implemented version of gromacs.
> 
>             Pooja
>             On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Mark Abraham
>             <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>
>             <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
>             <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>> wrote:
> 
>                On 10/07/2010 1:28 AM, Sai Pooja wrote:
> 
> 
>                    Hi,
> 
>                    When I start from a energy minimized protein in
>             vacuum and
>                    solvate it using genbox, the output message says that the
>                    protein has zero charge. So I skip the genion step. I
>             follow
>                    this with energy minimization of the solvated protein
>             followed
>                    by restraining the protein and then doing a short
>             mdrun (as is
>                    the usual procedure outlined in most tutorials).
>             However, when I
>                    run the grompp command as the first step for the position
>                    restrained md, it runs but prints a note saying that
>             the system
>                    has non-zero charge ~ -  0.9999.
> 
>                    NOTE 2 [file finalnoss.top, line 8070]:
>                     System has non-zero total charge: -9.999994e-01
> 
>                    I dont understand. Do I need to run the genion step
>             anyway or is
>                    it okay to continue with this system?
> 
> 
>                I'd believe grompp before genbox. Surely you know already
>             what is in
>                your system, and thus its total charge. You should
>             already know the
>                protonation state of all of your relevant protein
>             residues, because
>                you made choices for them with pdb2gmx.
> 
>                Mark
> 
> 
> 
>                    Pooja
> 
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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