[gmx-users] Re: His protonation

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Please keep all Gromacs-related correspondence on the gmx-users list.  I am not 
a private tutor.

sagar barage wrote:
> Dear sir,
>  
>            when i was done the MD of crystal structure the both nitrogen 
> of immadazol ring of histidine is protonated
> which are not protonated in crystal structure.

There are no protons in crystal structures.

>          all histidine in structure contain single protonation but some 
> Histidine is double protonated at both nitrogen
> why this happens in gromacs?
> 

Please read the manual information (or pdb2gmx -h) about how pdb2gmx attempts to 
add hydrogens to the input structure.

-Justingm

> -- 
> Sagar H. Barage
> sagarbarage at gmail.com <mailto:sagarbarage at gmail.com>

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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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