[gmx-users] NMR restrained MD

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Sep 12 21:14:58 CEST 2013



On 9/12/13 2:57 PM, Rama Krishna Koppisetti wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> Output topology from pdb2gmx.  You could see some entries differ between
> two molecules.
>
> I'm looking forward to do restrained MD for this system by using Gromacs.
>
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; Name            nrexcl
> Protein             3
>
> [ atoms ]
> ;   nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass
> typeB    chargeB      massB
> ; residue 100 PHE rtp PHE  q +1.0
>       1   opls_287    100    PHE      N      1       -0.3    14.0067   ;
> qtot -0.3
>       2   opls_290    100    PHE     H1      1       0.33      1.008   ;
> qtot 0.03
>       3   opls_290    100    PHE     H2      1       0.33      1.008   ;
> qtot 0.36
>       4   opls_290    100    PHE     H3      1       0.33      1.008   ;
> qtot 0.69
>       5  opls_293B    100    PHE     CA      1       0.25     12.011   ;
> qtot 0.94
>       6   opls_140    100    PHE     HA      1       0.06      1.008   ;
> qtot 1
>       7   opls_149    100    PHE     CB      2     -0.005     12.011   ;
> qtot 0.995
>
> ; residue   1 DMPC rtp DMPC q  0.0
>    2514        LC3      1   DMPC    CN1    874        0.4     15.035   ;
> qtot 8.4
>    2515        LC3      1   DMPC    CN2    874        0.4     15.035   ;
> qtot 8.8
>    2516        LC3      1   DMPC    CN3    874        0.4     15.035   ;
> qtot 9.2
>    2517        LNL      1   DMPC    NTM    874       -0.5    14.0067   ;
> qtot 8.7
>    2518        LH2      1   DMPC     CA    874        0.3     14.027   ;
> qtot 9
>    2519        LC2      1   DMPC     CB    875        0.4     14.027   ;
> qtot 9.4
>    2520        LOS      1   DMPC     OA    875       -0.8    15.9994   ;
> qtot 8.6
>    2521         LP      1   DMPC      P    875        1.7    30.9738   ;
> qtot 10.3
>    2522        LOM      1   DMPC     OB    875       -0.8    15.9994   ;
> qtot 9.5
>    2523        LOM      1   DMPC     OC    875       -0.8    15.9994   ;
> qtot 8.7
>    2524        LOS      1   DMPC     OD    875       -0.7    15.9994   ;
> qtot 8
>    2525        LC2      1   DMPC     CC    876        0.4     14.027   ;
> qtot 8.4
>    2526        LH1      1   DMPC     CD    876        0.3     13.019   ;
> qtot 8.7
>    2527        LOS      1   DMPC     OE    876       -0.7    15.9994   ;
> qtot 8
>
> [ bonds ]
> ;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
>      ;bonds for protein
>     1     2     1
>      1     3     1
>      1     4     1
>      1     5     1
>      5     6     1
>      5     7     1
>      5    21     1
>      7     8     1
>      7     9     1
>      7    10     1
> ;bonds from lipid atoms
>   2514  2517     1       0.1470   8.7100e+06
>   2515  2517     1      0.1470   8.7100e+06
>   2516  2517     1       0.1470   8.7100e+06
>   2517  2518     1       0.1470   8.7100e+06
>   2518  2519     1       0.1530   7.1500e+06
>   2519  2520     1       0.1430   8.1800e+06
>   2520  2521     1       0.1610   4.8400e+06
>

I don't see anything syntactically wrong here.  The normal function of the 
OPLS-AA force field is to look up all bonded parameters from ffbonded.itp (hence 
why the lines above for the protein atoms appear to have no parameters 
assigned).  In principle, you can specify them explicitly, so I don't know why 
grompp is complaining.

> [ pairs ]
> ;  ai    aj funct            c0            c1            c2            c3
>      1     8     1
>      1     9     1
>      1    10     1
>      1    22     1
>      1    23     1
>      2     6     1
>      2     7     1
>      2    21     1
>      3     6     1
>      3     7     1
>      3    21     1
>      4     6     1
>      4     7     1
>      4    21     1
>      5    11     1
>      5    13     1
> [ angles ]
> ;  ai    aj    ak funct            c0            c1
> c2            c3
> ;angles for protein atoms
>     2     1     3     1
>      2     1     4     1
>      2     1     5     1
>      3     1     4     1
>      3     1     5     1
>      4     1     5     1
>      1     5     6     1
>      1     5     7     1
>      1     5    21     1
>      6     5     7     1
>      6     5    21     1
> ;angles for lipid atoms
> 2514  2517  2515     1        109.50   520.00
>   2514  2517  2516     1        109.50   520.00
>   2514  2517  2518     1        109.50   520.00
>   2515  2517  2516     1       109.50   520.00
>   2515  2517  2518     1        109.50   520.00
>   2516  2517  2518     1        109.50   520.00
>   2517  2518  2519     1        111.00   530.00
>   2518  2519  2520     1        111.00   530.00
>   2519  2520  2521     1        120.00   530.00
>   2520  2521  2522     1        109.60   450.00
> [ dihedrals ]
> ;  ai    aj    ak    al funct            c0            c1
> c2            c3            c4            c5
> ;For protein
>    2     1     5     6     3
>      2     1     5     7     3
>      2     1     5    21     3
>     23    25    27    30     3    dih_ARG_chi1_N_C_C_C
>     45    25    27    30     3    dih_ARG_chi1_C_C_C_CO
> ;For lipids
> 2516  2517  2518  2519     3    1      0.00     3.77    3
>   2514  2517  2518  2519     3
>   2515  2517  2518  2519     3
>   2517  2518  2519  2520     3    1      0.00     8.62    3
>   2518  2519  2520  2521     3    1      0.00     3.77    3
>   2519  2520  2521  2524     3    1      0.00     3.19    3
>   2519  2520  2521  2522     3
>   2519  2520  2521  2523     3
>   2520  2521  2524  2525     3    1      0.00     3.19    3
>

Note here that the dihedral entries are garbage.  The parameters you have are 
periodic dihedrals, not R-B, but the topology is specifying the phase angle, 
force constant, and multiplicity as coefficients in the R-B expression.  You 
have two options here that may work:

1. Manually fix the topology such that these dihedrals are actually represented 
as periodic (i.e. delete the function type 3 that tells grompp they should be R-B)
2. Make an entirely separate lipid.rtp file (containing only the DMPC entry) 
that uses periodic dihedrals.  I don't know if this approach will work, to be 
quite honest.  Given that there need to be both R-B and periodic dihedrals in 
these molecules, there is no real easy way out.

-Justin

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