[gmx-users] Parametrisation of the heteroatomic pdb

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sat Oct 29 14:09:21 CEST 2011



James Starlight wrote:
> Yes I've tried this way but obtained wrong result ;o
> 
> e.g after align along X I've tried rotate along Z on 90 to obtain align on Z
> -rotate 0 0 90
> 
> but I've obtained structure aligned on Y :DD
> 
> Whta I've done wrong?
> 

You've rotated around the wrong axis.

-Justin

> James
> 
> 2011/10/29 Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au 
> <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
> 
>     On 29/10/2011 9:47 PM, James Starlight wrote:
>>     sure but I could not find possible parameter for -scale option
> 
>     Huh? What has scaling got to do with it?
> 
> 
>>
>>     -[no]princ   bool   no      Orient molecule(s) along their
>>     principal axes
>>
>>     from that I found that only yes\ no options is aviable for princ :(
> 
>     So align with X with -princ. Then in another call to editconf rotate
>     it to align with whatever you want.
> 
>     Mark
> 
> 
>>
>>     of course I could do the ssame via combination of the
>>     -align       vector 0 0 0   Align to target vector
>>     -translate   vector 0 0 0   Translation
>>     -rotate      vector 0 0 0   Rotation around the X, Y and Z axes in
>>     degrees
>>
>>     but this would require many calculations so I'm looking for most
>>     simplest way of orientation of my molecule along required coordinate
>>     2011/10/29 Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
>>     <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>>
>>         On 29/10/2011 7:38 PM, James Starlight wrote:
>>>         Mark, hello!
>>>
>>>
>>>         It's clear now about termii
>>>
>>>         also I'd like to know about orientation of my protein along
>>>         specific axis
>>>
>>>         e.g editconf -princ orient my protein along X but what should
>>>         i do to orient it along other axis?
>>
>>         Did you start by trying to look up the answer in editconf -h
>>         yourself?
>>
>>         Mark
>>
>>
>>>
>>>         James
>>>
>>>         2011/10/29 Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
>>>         <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>>>
>>>             On 29/10/2011 6:34 PM, James Starlight wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Justin, hello!
>>>
>>>                 I've desided to make simulation of my GA peptide
>>>                 under GROMOS96 53A6 force field extended with Berger
>>>                 lipids ( on analogy to KALP simulation because both
>>>                 of that lipids are membrane alpha helices with
>>>                 similar topology )
>>>
>>>                 About termii- As I understood you've added ACE and
>>>                 NH2 termii to KALP via Amber tools software. I havent
>>>                 that software now but pdb2gmx under GROMOS96 53A6
>>>                 force field may add only NH(2) cap to the C-end and
>>>                 COO(H) to the N-end instead of ACE and NH2.
>>>
>>>
>>>             I can't understand any of that :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                 Identified residue VAL2 as a starting terminus.
>>>                 Identified residue TRP16 as a ending terminus.
>>>                 8 out of 8 lines of specbond.dat converted successfully
>>>                 Select start terminus type for VAL-2
>>>                  0: NH3+
>>>                  1: NH2
>>>                  2: None
>>>
>>>                 It's not quite unferstand for me why pdb2gmx add the
>>>                 termii in such wrong manner ( e.g ACE and other
>>>                 groups also contains in the .rtp of this ff).
>>>
>>>
>>>             Termini are added by pdb2gmx using the terminus databases
>>>             in the .n.tdb and .c.tdb files, as you would know from
>>>             your reading of chapter 5 of the manual :-) Only things
>>>             that are found there can be added by pdb2gmx - and not
>>>             everything you can imagine will be found there. If you
>>>             want (for example) an ACE group at your N-terminus, you
>>>             need to build it using some other tool, and arrange for
>>>             the .rtp entry for ACE to exist (which it already does).
>>>
>>>
>>>                 Finally why I cant chose NH(2) for the last residue
>>>                 and the COOH for the first ?
>>>
>>>
>>>             Because they've either not been parameterized, coded or
>>>             tested.
>>>
>>>
>>>                 And what difference beetwen such termii specification
>>>                 would be as the consequence ?
>>>
>>>
>>>             Mark
>>>
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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