[gmx-users] Performing protein-ligand GROMACS MD under pH 5 conditions

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/10/14, 5:29 AM, MUSYOKA THOMMAS wrote:
> Dear Users,
> I am doing MD simulations involving lysosomal proteins catalases and small
> organic compounds and would be glad to know how I can achieve this under a
> pH=5 environment.
>

The concept of pH isn't well defined in standard MD.  The best you can do is 
protonate the constituent residues according to their pKa values to get the 
predominant forms of the proteins at that pH.  Approaches like constant-pH MD 
might be useful; see the numerous threads in the archive on this topic.

-Justin

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