[gmx-users] About membrane protein

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Tue Jan 14 23:50:42 CET 2014



On 1/14/14, 2:13 PM, paulxie wrote:
> Justin Lemkul wrote
>>
>> You will have to position the protein differently if it is oriented
>> asymmetrically with respect the the membrane.  The same principles apply,
>> but
>> box vectors will certainly be different, as will the editconf command.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
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> Thanks Justin! It Is asymmetric because the protein consists of a
> outer-membrane domain and a transmembrane helix. I placed the protein
> asymmetrically to let the transmembrane helix in the middle of the bilayer
> (dppc128) and adjusted the size of box. I confirmed that by checking the
> coordinates in the system.gro and system_inflated.gro. But after that step,
> after I did
> " grompp -f minim.mdp -c system_inflated.gro -o confout.tpr -maxwarn 1"
> and
> "mdrun -deffnm confout -nt 1"
> the coordinates of protein were dramatically changed, i.e. the protein was
> totally away from the bilayer.
> I think that should be something wrong, but cannot find it.
>

Without seeing your exact commands, neither can anyone else.

-Justin

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