[gmx-users] how to assign protonation sate at pH-8?

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/24/12 3:33 AM, Albert wrote:
> Dear:
>
>   My protein is only stable at pH-8.0 and I am wondering how can we assign the
> residues' protonation state for pH 8.0? Shall we calculate first by other pKA
> prediction software, then make modification to the residues' name according to
> the results manually in the PDB files so that gromacs can assign the correct
> protonation state for related residues? Or there are some internal methods in
> Gromacs for such kind of purpose?
>

Calculate pKa values, then assign protonation states with the appropriate flags 
to pdb2gmx (see pdb2gmx -h for all available options).  Renaming residues is 
unnecessary.

-Justin

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