[gmx-users] Parametrisation of the cyclic nucleotides in Gromos force fields

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri Dec 7 16:44:47 CET 2012



On 12/7/12 10:41 AM, James Starlight wrote:
> Today I've tried to simulate complexes of my protein with the cyclic
> GMP parametrized by ATB's. (below the recent parametrisation for
> charges of that molecule done by am1 algorithm)
>
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; Name   nrexcl
> _N4P     3
> [ atoms ]
> ;  nr  type  resnr  resid  atom  cgnr  charge    mass    total_charge
>      1    NT    1    _N4P     N2    1   -0.848  14.0067
>      2     H    1    _N4P    H22    1    0.424   1.0080
>      3     H    1    _N4P    H21    1    0.424   1.0080      ;  0.000
>      4    NR    1    _N4P     N1    2   -0.684  14.0067
>      5     H    1    _N4P     H1    2    0.437   1.0080
>      6     C    1    _N4P     C2    2    0.779  12.0110
>      7    NR    1    _N4P     N3    2   -0.678  14.0067
>      8     C    1    _N4P     C4    2    0.440  12.0110
>      9    NR    1    _N4P     N9    2   -0.294  14.0067      ;  0.000
>     10     C    1    _N4P     C8    3    0.272  12.0110
>     11    HC    1    _N4P    H01    3    0.141   1.0080
>     12     O    1    _N4P     O6    3   -0.555  15.9994
>     13     C    1    _N4P     C6    3    0.608  12.0110
>     14     C    1    _N4P     C5    3    0.101  12.0110
>     15    NR    1    _N4P     N7    3   -0.567  14.0067      ;  0.000
>     16    OE    1    _N4P    O4*    4   -0.451  15.9994
>     17   CH1    1    _N4P    C1*    4    0.451  13.0190      ;  0.000
>     18    OA    1    _N4P    O5*    5   -0.394  15.9994
>     19     P    1    _N4P    PAQ    5    0.974  30.9738
>     20    OM    1    _N4P    OAR    5   -0.616  15.9994
>     21    OA    1    _N4P    O3*    5   -0.390  15.9994
>     22    OA    1    _N4P    OAS    5   -0.584  15.9994
>     23     H    1    _N4P    H03    5    0.491   1.0080
>     24   CH2    1    _N4P    C5*    5    0.281  14.0270
>     25   CH1    1    _N4P    C4*    5    0.238  13.0190      ;  0.000
>     26   CH1    1    _N4P    C3*    6    0.000  13.0190      ;  0.000
>     27   CH1    1    _N4P    C2*    7    0.181  13.0190
>     28    OA    1    _N4P    O2*    7   -0.645  15.9994
>     29     H    1    _N4P    H8M    7    0.464   1.0080      ;  0.000
>
> In all cases my system have always been crushed after equilibration
> run ( during that phase with the posres applied on both protein as
> well as ligand the system was stabile) with the errors like
>
> Step 19, time 0.038 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
> relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
> rms 1.203662, max 11.750027 (between atoms 4289 and 4287)
> bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
>   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
>     4288   4287   89.5    0.2277   1.1291      0.1000
>     4292   4287   90.5    0.1304   0.9898      0.1350
>     4289   4287   90.4    0.1056   1.2750      0.1000
>     4318   4303   30.8    0.1531   0.1816      0.1530
>     4304   4303   45.2    0.1097   0.1531      0.1090
>     4309   4310   90.0    0.2629   0.3419      0.1000
>     4299   4290   84.2    0.1404   0.1641      0.1400
>     4292   4290   89.4    0.1362   0.5025      0.1380
>     4291   4290   89.2    0.1563   0.2142      0.1000
>     4293   4292   89.1    0.1252   0.5682      0.1320
>     4294   4293   78.1    0.1387   0.3906      0.1350
>     4300   4294   92.2    0.1385   0.4639      0.1390
>     4295   4294   91.1    0.1365   0.5711      0.1380
>     4303   4295   43.4    0.1482   0.1954      0.1470
>     4296   4295   36.6    0.1408   0.1593      0.1400
>     4301   4296   89.9    0.1323   0.5162      0.1320
>     4297   4296   32.5    0.1089   0.1343      0.1090
>     4299   4298   87.0    0.1230   0.2758      0.1230
>     4300   4299   89.8    0.1431   0.5922      0.1430
>     4301   4300   79.0    0.1381   0.1928      0.1380
>
>
> Fatal error:
> 1 particles communicated to PME node 26 are more than 2/3 times the
> cut-off out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in
> dimension y.
> This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
>
> After that my system have been crashed and than produced many
> step*.pdb files in the work dirr.
>
> It's intresting that with the prodrg topology of that mollecule ( with
> worst charge distribution) I've never such problems. Might that error
> be due to the wrong geometry parametrisation (e.g incorect dihedrals)
> of the cGMP made by ATB ?
>

Simulate all components of your system separately and follow 
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up#Diagnosing_an_Unstable_System. 
  Dihedrals should not be a major issue, since all of them can be adequately 
described by those already present in the parent force field.  Check against DGUA.

-Justin

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Research Scientist
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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