[gmx-users] g_hbond

Steven Neumann s.neumann08 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 17:49:13 CEST 2011


One question.... for Glycine it is easy to assess 3 possible hbonds which
can create as hydrogen is only one atom as a side chain.
How about other amino acids and their maximum hbonds they can create?

Steven

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Steven Neumann <s.neumann08 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for clarification Justin!!! The Manual is not as clear as you :P
>
> Steven
>
>   On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Steven Neumann wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>    Steven Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>>        <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>>         <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>           Steven Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>>               Hi Gromacs Users,
>>>                I have calculated hydrogen bonds and collisions between my
>>>               ligands and every single residue using g_hbond. Looking
>>>        at the
>>>               criteria adpoted by Gromacs I found impossible that number
>>> of
>>>               hydrogen bonds were higher than number of collisions...
>>>        And what
>>>               is interesting in one of my residue I obtained result like
>>>               this... All Hbonds with Glycine - 1872, All Collisions 704.
>>>                Does anyone know how is it possible?
>>>
>>>           I don't know how any of your numbers are possible (1872 H-bonds
>>>           forming with a glycine?), or what you are defining as a
>>> collision
>>>           and how you calculated it. Please provide the exact commands
>>> that
>>>           you're using.  If you're equating a contact (e.g. from
>>> g_mindist)
>>>           with a collision, then realize that the default criteria for a
>>>           contact are very different than the geometric criteria for a
>>>           hydrogen bond.
>>>
>>>           -Justin
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>>>         My system is made of 10 ligands and one protein. I used command:
>>>         g_hbond -f md.trr -s md.tpr -n res91.ndx -num
>>> 91with10LIGbonds.xvg
>>>         Where I specified in the index file two groups: 10 ligands and
>>>        Glycine residue. So I have calculated hbonds (second column) and
>>>        collisions (third column) and then I made a sum of all frames
>>>        during 100 ns simualtion time (one frame every 50 ps) obtaining
>>>        1872 hbonds and 703 collisions between Glycine and 10 ligands. I
>>>        did it with every residue to assess binding affinity of
>>>        different amino acids.
>>>        Criteria for collision is distance <3.5 A, and fo hbond distance
>>>        <3.5 A and angle. So when calcualting hbond and collisions the
>>>        number of hbonds has has to be smaller while collision takes
>>>        into account hbonds as welll. I obtained results like this for
>>>        all other residues which seems to be correct. Am I right?
>>>
>>>    No.  The second column is not inclusive of the first.  It counts the
>>>    number of atoms that are within hydrogen bonding distance, but do
>>>    not meet the criteria because of the angle between D-H-A.
>>>
>>>
>>>    -Justin
>>>
>>>    In this case number of collisions has to include number of hbonds.
>>>    If collision is counted as a distance <3.5 and hbond distance <3.5
>>>    plus angle D-H-A means that collisions covers hbonds... Explain
>>>    please whether I am wrong.
>>>
>>>
>> The second column lists the number of atom pairs that satisfy the distance
>> requirement but do not satisfy the angle requirement and therefore are not
>> hydrogen bonds.  The two columns are mutually exclusive.  The sum of these
>> two columns would be the total number of pairs that are within
>> hydrogen-bonding distance, but the first column indicates those that are
>> actually involved in hydrogen bonds (because of the angle), and the second
>> column indicates those that are not involved in hydrogen bonds.
>>
>>
>> -Justin
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