[gmx-users] add a group to an amino acid

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Tue Nov 9 10:42:15 CET 2010


On 9/11/2010 8:19 PM, hengame fallah wrote:
> Thanks Justin,
> actually the protein that i want to simulate consists of two amino 
> acids: PHE and BOC
> BOC is an unusual amino acid as you know.
> It has a Cl instead of HZ in PHE and has one extra CH2 in comparison 
> to PHE

So that probably means you'll have to pay care to the [bonds] section in 
the .rtp file. The only bonds GROMACS knows about are the ones in the 
.rtp. They have to be right. The errors below look like you haven't done 
it right.

> I finally defined a residue BOC in opls .rtp file:
>
> [ BOC ]
>  [ atoms ]
>      N    opls_238   -0.500     1
>      H    opls_241    0.300     1
>     CA    opls_224B  -0.005     1
>    HA1    opls_140    0.060     1
>    HA2    opls_140    0.060     1
>     CB    opls_149    0.140     2
>    HB1    opls_140    0.060     2
>    CG1    opls_145   -0.115     2
>    CD1    opls_145   -0.115     3
>    HD1    opls_146    0.115     3
>    CD2    opls_145   -0.115     4
>    HD2    opls_146    0.115     4
>    CE1    opls_145   -0.115     5
>    HE1    opls_146    0.115     5
>    CE2    opls_145   -0.115     6
>    HE2    opls_146    0.115     6
>     CZ    opls_145    0.885     7
>     Cl    opls_264   -1.000     7
>    CG2    opls_071   -0.005     8
>    HG1    opls_140    0.060     8
>    HG2    opls_140    0.060     8
>      C    opls_235    0.700     9
>      O    opls_236   -0.700     9
>
> the ending part of my PDB is:
> ...
> ATOM     38  HE2 PHE     2      -6.946   8.455   4.409
> ATOM     39  CZ  PHE     2      -5.456  10.015   4.624
> ATOM     40  HZ  PHE     2      -5.887  10.646   3.828
> ATOM     41  N   BOC     3      -1.862   5.210   5.333
> ATOM     42  H   BOC     3      -2.325   4.344   5.618
> ATOM     43  CA  BOC     3      -1.001   5.232   4.169
> ATOM     44  HA1 BOC     3      -0.540   6.235   4.026

HA2 is missing here, per your .rtp

> ATOM     45  CB  BOC     3      -1.797   4.794   2.924
> ATOM     46 HB1  BOC     3      -2.244   3.809   3.204
> ATOM     47  CG1 BOC     3      -2.976   5.730   2.589
> ATOM     48  CG2 BOC     3      -0.935   4.544   1.698
> ATOM     49  CD1 BOC     3      -1.231   3.466   0.845
> ATOM     50  HD1 BOC     3      -2.070   2.790   1.081
> ATOM     51  CD2 BOC     3       0.120   5.408   1.353
> ATOM     52  HD2 BOC     3       0.357   6.277   1.986
> ATOM     53  CE1 BOC     3      -0.471   3.236  -0.312
> ATOM     54  HE1 BOC     3      -0.717   2.381  -0.964
> ATOM     55  CE2 BOC     3       0.881   5.182   0.197
> ATOM     56  HE2 BOC     3       1.706   5.870  -0.054
> ATOM     57  CZ  BOC     3       0.591   4.093  -0.639
> ATOM     58  C   BOC     3      -2.565   7.148   2.291
> ATOM     59  O   BOC     3      -2.716   8.035   3.131
> ATOM     60  CL  BOC     3       1.525   3.816  -2.062
> ATOM     61  HA2 BOC     3      -0.172   4.511   4.360
> ATOM     62  HG1 BOC     3      -3.530   5.331   1.707
> ATOM     63  HG2 BOC     3      -3.708   5.729   3.431
>
> Now i got t this error:
> ...
> There are 1 chains and 0 blocks of water and 3 residues with 63 atoms
>
>   chain  #res #atoms
>   1 ' '     3     63
>
> All occupancy fields zero. This is probably not an X-Ray structure
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/ffoplsaa.atp
> Atomtype 1
> Reading residue database... (ffoplsaa)
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/ffoplsaa.rtp
> Residue 57
> Sorting it all out...
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/ffoplsaa.hdb
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/ffoplsaa-n.tdb
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/ffoplsaa-c.tdb
>
> Back Off! I just backed up topol.top to ./#topol.top.69#
> Processing chain 1 (63 atoms, 3 residues)
> There are 3 donors and 3 acceptors
> There are 4 hydrogen bonds
> Checking for duplicate atoms....
> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/specbond.dat
> 7 out of 7 lines of specbond.dat converted succesfully
> N-terminus: NH3+
> C-terminus: COO-
> Now there are 3 residues with 68 atoms
> Making bonds...
> Warning: Long Bond (52-53 = 0.334847 nm)
> Warning: Long Bond (52-55 = 0.334912 nm)
> Warning: Long Bond (63-64 = 0.271173 nm)
> Warning: Long Bond (63-65 = 0.347808 nm)
> Warning: Long Bond (63-66 = 0.31288 nm)

This is telling you the connectivity in your .rtp doesn't match the 
spatial arrangement very well. Go back and check the .rtp file.

> Opening library file /usr/share/gromacs/top/aminoacids.dat
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program pdb2gmx, VERSION 4.0.7
> Source code file: ../../../../src/kernel/add_par.c, line: 233
>
> Fatal error:
> Atom HB11 not found in rtp database in residue BOC, it looks a bit 
> like HB1

pdb2gmx is probably hopelessly confused by now. Fix the other issues and 
try again.

Mark

> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...
>
> What should i do?
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     hengame fallah wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>         I'm using the OPLS force field.
>
>         [ PHE ]
>          [ atoms ]
>             N    opls_238   -0.500     1
>             H    opls_241    0.300     1
>            CA    opls_224B   0.140     1
>            HA    opls_140    0.060     1
>            CB    opls_149   -0.005     2
>           HB1    opls_140    0.060     2
>           HB2    opls_140    0.060     2
>            CG    opls_145   -0.115     2
>           CD1    opls_145   -0.115     3
>           HD1    opls_146    0.115     3
>           CD2    opls_145   -0.115     4
>           HD2    opls_146    0.115     4
>           CE1    opls_145   -0.115     5
>           HE1    opls_146    0.115     5
>           CE2    opls_145   -0.115     6
>           HE2    opls_146    0.115     6
>            CZ    opls_145   -0.115     7
>            HZ    opls_146    0.115     7
>             C    opls_235    0.500     8
>             O    opls_236   -0.500     8
>
>         I want to attach "CL" atom instead of HZ
>         i made my pdb but when i use pdb2gmx, it adds HZ automatically
>         in gro and top files.
>         What should i do to get rid of this HZ and attach CL instead.
>
>
>     If the .rtp entry says to build PHE with those constituent atoms,
>     it will do so.  You can make a custom .rtp entry that has CL
>     instead of HZ.
>
>
>         (I edited top and gro files and remove HZ from them, it seemed
>         to work properly at first, but when i tried to do energy
>         minimization, it had errors in top file
>          and i realized that it couldn't recognized the bond between
>         CL and CZ):
>
>         ERROR 1 [file topol.top, line 150]:
>          No default Bond types
>
>
>         ERROR 2 [file topol.top, line 422]:
>          No default Angle types
>
>
>         ERROR 3 [file topol.top, line 423]:
>          No default Angle types
>
>
>     All of these errors indicate that OPLS cannot accommodate such a
>     species. Making ad hoc changes to the topology often does this.
>      Look at what these lines contain and you will be able to identify
>     the relevant parameters that are missing.
>
>     <snip>
>
>
>            66   opls_401      5    CL        CL       26         -1  
>           35.453      ; qtot -1.06
>
>
>     I would seriously question the validity of doing this.  Is it
>     really correct to put (essentially) a Cl- ion on a Phe ring and
>     call it correct?  Proper parameterization is a very challenging
>     task, and I doubt what you've proposed here is valid.
>
>     http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Parameterization
>
>     -Justin
>
>
>         ...
>         [ bonds ]
>         ...
>          59    66     1
>           60    61     1
>           60    62     1
>           63    64     1
>           63    65     1
>         ...
>         [ angles ]
>         ...
>           58    57    59     1
>           55    59    57     1
>           55    59    66     1
>           57    59    66     1
>           45    60    61     1
>           45    60    62     1
>           61    60    62     1
>           64    63    65     1
>         ...
>
>
>     -- 
>     ========================================
>
>     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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