[gmx-users] aminoacids.n.tdb

Emine Deniz Tekin edeniztekin at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 14:30:29 CEST 2011


Hi Mark,


Thank you for your reply. But, I couldn’t understand very well what you
meant “you can make one that uses backbone-style linking. Most of the
forcefields will have examples of non-amino-acid terminating residues -
these make a single peptide bond just like yours does.”. So, let me explain
the problem a little more.  I would be happy if you could expound upon your
reply.


*1)*      I prepared the *rtp *entry for the lauroic acid (see below) and
add the lipid parameters to the relevant sections of the *ffnonbonded.itp*and
*ffbonded.itp* files.

*2)*      I added the lauroic acid as a "Non-Protein” in the *
residuetypes.dat *file and also I introduced the atom types (LO: 15.9994,
LC: 12.0110, LP2: 14.0270, LP3: 15.0350) in the *atomtypes.atp.*

*3)      *I concatenated the structure files of a 8-residue-peptide* *and
lauroic acid as *system.gro. *Then, using “pdb2gmx -ter”, I obtained
the *topol.top,
conf.gro* and *posre.itp* for *the whole system.* (I chose : start terminus
VAL-2: NH2 and end terminus ASP-9: COO-)

*4)*   But when I looked into *conf.gro* with the VMD, I see that the
peptide bond is formed between the lauroic acid (C34) and the N terminal of
the Valine. However, second H of the N is still there and it is making
another bond with C34 of lauroic acid. The strange thing is: C34 is double
bonded to O35, Carbon makes four bonds.

How can I get rid of that H?

[ DPP ]

 [ atoms ]

   C34       LC     0.800    18

   O35       LO    -0.60     18

   C36      LP2      0       19

   C37      LP2      0       20

   C38      LP2      0       21

   C39      LP2      0       22

   C40      LP2      0       23

   C41      LP2      0       24

   C42      LP2      0       25

   C43      LP2      0       26

   C44      LP2      0       27

   C45      LP2      0       28

   C46      LP3      0       29

[ bonds ]

;  ai    aj funct

      34      35       1 0.12300E+00 0.50210E+06

      34      36       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      36      37       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      37      38       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      38      39       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      39      40       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      40      41       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      41      42       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      42      43       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      43      44       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      44      45       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

      45      46       1 0.15300E+00 0.33470E+06

[ angles ]

;  ai    aj    ak funct

      34      36      37       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      35      34      36       1 0.12100E+03 0.50210E+03

      36      37      38       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      37      38      39       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      38      39      40       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      39      40      41       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      40      41      42       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      41      42      43       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      42      43      44       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      43      44      45       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

      44      45      46       1 0.11100E+03 0.46020E+03

[ dihedrals ]

;  ai    aj    ak    al funct   phi0     cp     mult

   34    36    37    38     1    0.0     5.86    3

   36    37    38    39     3

   37    38    39    40     3

   38    39    40    41     3

   39    40    41    42     3

   40    41    42    43     3

   41    42    43    44     3

   42    43    44    45     3

   43    44    45    46     3


Best regards,

Deniz




On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>wrote:

> On 8/04/2011 11:25 PM, Emine Deniz Tekin wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Gromacs users,
>>
>> I want to covalently link the lauroic acid to the Valine residue (it is a
>> peptide (amide) bond), I know that I should update the specbond.dat.But
>> before updating this file, I need the NH as an N terminal of the first
>> residue (Valine).When I used pdb2gmx with the –ter flag, I got either NH3,
>> NH2 or None instead of NH.So, I add the [NH] directive in the
>> aminoacids.n.rtp file, as follows;
>>
>>
>> [ NH ]
>>
>> [ replace ]
>>
>> ; old-namenew-typenew-massnew-charge
>>
>> NLN14.0067-0.31
>>
>> CACH113.0190.127
>>
>> [ add ]
>>
>> 12HNCAC
>>
>> ;atom_typemasscharge
>>
>> H1.0080.31
>>
>> [ delete ]
>>
>> H
>>
>> [ bonds ]
>>
>> NHgb_2
>>
>> [ angles ]
>>
>> CANHga_11
>>
>> [ dihedrals ]
>>
>> HNCACgd_29
>>
>>
>>
>> (ps. I wrote the charges of N, CA and H according to values defined in
>> topol.top and also I used the Gromos96 53a6 force field)
>>
>>
>> Then, I used the pdb2gmx with –ter, I could see:
>>
>> Select start terminus type for VAL
>>
>> 0: NH
>>
>> 1: NH3+
>>
>> 2: NH2
>>
>> 3: None
>>
>>
>> Finally, I got thetopol.top, posre itp and conf.gro files. But when I
>> looked into conf.gro, I see that I am getting “None”. How can I get the NH ?
>>
>>
> Coordinating multiple "moving parts" like the specbond and terminus-fixing
> is probably a recipe for trouble.
>
> Since you have to make an .rtp entry for lauroic acid anyway, you can make
> one that uses backbone-style linking. Most of the forcefields will have
> examples of non-amino-acid terminating residues - these make a single
> peptide bond just like yours does. Now you can ignore the specbond and
> terminus-fixing mechanisms entirely.
>
> Mark
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