[gmx-users] New residue in FF does not bond to others.

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/5/14, 11:59 AM, Dawid das wrote:
> Dear Gromacs experts,
>
> I have found out why my force field does not work properly. I have added a
> new residue according to manual I found on Gromacs website. I modified all
> of the files. Now I have revealed that my new residue does not have
> connection to natural aminoacids in my topology file! If you take a look at
> it you will see that atoms 970 and 1009 are connected while the truth is
> that atoms 970 (carbonyl C atom of Phe65) and 1008 (MN1 atom of CH6 (new)
> residue) but also atoms 994 (MC3 atom of new residue) and 1009 (peptide N
> atom of Ser69) should be bonded. I have specified bonded parameters between
> those atom types in ffbonded.itp file but not in aminoacids.rtp.
> In other words my topology file does not recognize the connection between
> new residue and natural aminoacids residues. It seems like I do not specify
> something correctly in force field but I cannot find my mistake. Shall I
> specify this connection in specbond.dat file?
>

You do not need specbond.dat.  If the CH6 residue is an integral part of the 
protein backbone, you need to specify the inter-residue bonds using the +/- 
mechanism with appropriate atom names.

-Justin

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