[gmx-users] amber DNA non-integer charge

Kamesh Narasimhan g0701207 at nus.edu.sg
Sun Aug 28 20:37:01 CEST 2011


Hil,

I am trying to simulate a protein-DNA structure using amber03 and end up having a non-integer charge in topology generation .  From the webpage of ffamber on NA-simulations, I could see this below instruction

"However, for nucleic acids this also often causes pdb2gmx to replace an H atom in the first residue of all nucleic acid chains with an incorrect H atom, resulting in non-neutral charge. The correct atom is generally replaced with an atom of type amberXX_25 (hydroxyl H), as pdb2gmx treats it as a terminal hydrogen".

I replaced the aminoacids.dat contents with aminoacids-NA.dat contents and therefore not sure how the non-integer originates. 

In my top file I can see this residue of the type "amber99_25" . How do I correct for the atom-type and charge in this case ?

" amber99_25      1    DG5    H5T      2     0.4422      1.008   ; qtot -0.1896"


My top file section:

 nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass  typeB    chargeB      massB
     1 amber99_43      1    DG5    O5'      1    -0.6318         16   ; qtot -0.6318
     2 amber99_25      1    DG5    H5T      2     0.4422      1.008   ; qtot -0.1896
     3 amber99_11      1    DG5    C5'      3    -0.0069      12.01   ; qtot -0.1965
     4 amber99_19      1    DG5   H5'1      4     0.0754      1.008   ; qtot -0.1211
     5 amber99_19      1    DG5   H5'2      5     0.0754      1.008   ; qtot -0.0457
     6 amber99_11      1    DG5    C4'      6     0.1629      12.01   ; qtot 0.1172
     7 amber99_19      1    DG5    H4'      7     0.1176      1.008   ; qtot 0.2348
     8 amber99_44      1    DG5    O4'      8    -0.3691         16   ; qtot -0.1343
     9 amber99_11      1    DG5    C1'      9     0.0358      12.01   ; qtot -0.0985
    10 amber99_20      1    DG5    H1'     10     0.1746      1.008   ; qtot 0.0761
    11 amber99_40      1    DG5     N9     11     0.0577      14.01   ; qtot 0.1338
    12  amber99_6      1    DG5     C8     12     0.0736      12.01   ; qtot 0.2074
    13 amber99_24      1    DG5     H8     13     0.1997      1.008   ; qtot 0.4071
    14 amber99_36      1    DG5     N7     14    -0.5725      14.01   ; qtot -0.1654
    15  amber99_4      1    DG5     C5     15     0.1991      12.01   ; qtot 0.0337
    16  amber99_2      1    DG5     C6     16     0.4918      12.01   ; qtot 0.5255
    17 amber99_41      1    DG5     O6     17    -0.5699         16   ; qtot -0.0444
    18 amber99_35      1    DG5     N1     18    -0.5053      14.01   ; qtot -0.5497
    19 amber99_25      1    DG5     H1     19     0.4422      1.008   ; qtot -0.1075
    20  amber99_3      1    DG5     C2     20     0.7432      12.01   ; qtot 0.6357
    21 amber99_38      1    DG5     N2     21     -0.923      14.01   ; qtot -0.2873
    22 amber99_17      1    DG5    H21     22     0.4235      1.008   ; qtot 0.1362
    23 amber99_17      1    DG5    H22     23     0.4235      1.008   ; qtot 0.5597
    24 amber99_37      1    DG5     N3     24    -0.6636      14.01   ; qtot -0.1039
    25  amber99_4      1    DG5     C4     25     0.1814      12.01   ; qtot 0.0775
    26 amber99_11      1    DG5    C3'     26     0.0713      12.01   ; qtot 0.1488
    27 amber99_19      1    DG5    H3'     27     0.0985      1.008   ; qtot 0.2473
    28 amber99_11      1    DG5    C2'     28    -0.0854      12.01   ; qtot 0.1619
    29 amber99_18      1    DG5   H2'1     29     0.0718      1.008   ; qtot 0.2337
    30 amber99_18      1    DG5   H2'2     30     0.0718      1.008   ; qtot 0.3055
    31 amber99_44      1    DG5    O3'     31    -0.5232         16   ; qtot -0.2177
    ....
    ..... 

My pdb file section:
ATOM      1  C5' DG5 A   1      28.937 -10.596 -28.986  1.00 95.46           C
ATOM      2  O5' DG5 A   1      30.060 -10.216 -29.774  1.00 95.82           O
ATOM      3  C4' DG5 A   1      29.239 -11.863 -28.212  1.00101.28           C
ATOM      4  O4' DG5 A   1      30.545 -11.736 -27.597  1.00102.88           O
ATOM      5  C3' DG5 A   1      28.300 -12.150 -27.052  1.00100.37           C
ATOM      6  O3' DG5 A   1      28.363 -13.527 -26.704  1.00104.13           O
ATOM      7  C2' DG5 A   1      28.913 -11.282 -25.960  1.00 95.28           C
ATOM      8  C1' DG5 A   1      30.395 -11.553 -26.200  1.00100.67           C
ATOM      9  N1  DG5 A   1      34.400 -10.292 -23.339  1.00 88.74           N
ATOM     10  C2  DG5 A   1      33.795 -11.515 -23.502  1.00 92.09           C
ATOM     11  N2  DG5 A   1      34.320 -12.542 -22.818  1.00 92.20           N
ATOM     12  N3  DG5 A   1      32.745 -11.722 -24.284  1.00100.66           N
ATOM     13  C4  DG5 A   1      32.342 -10.585 -24.901  1.00101.19           C
ATOM     14  C5  DG5 A   1      32.877  -9.321 -24.804  1.00 97.04           C
ATOM     15  C6  DG5 A   1      33.999  -9.114 -23.965  1.00 93.19           C
ATOM     16  O6  DG5 A   1      34.613  -8.059 -23.751  1.00 94.32           O
ATOM     17  N7  DG5 A   1      32.171  -8.426 -25.598  1.00 94.27           N
ATOM     18  C8  DG5 A   1      31.241  -9.155 -26.150  1.00 97.12           C
ATOM     19  N9  DG5 A   1      31.282 -10.474 -25.771  1.00100.33           N

  ....
   ..... 


thanks
kamesh


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