[gmx-users] Pi stacking

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/16/15 7:33 AM, Tushar Ranjan Moharana wrote:
> Hi Justin
> Thanks for your valuable advice. I had a misconception that in GROMACS Just
> adding NA and CL doesn't produce the effect of salt concentration.
> It arises because most of the paper I have read about effect of salt
> concentration on protein or DNA the structure of the bio molecule doesn't
> shows any significant change (this may be also because those protein
> doesn't change much with salt concentration). I read your recent paper
> where you used "Drude Polarizable Force Fields" which can't be used in
> GROMACS.
>

It will be available soon.  Just waiting on reviewers to get back to us... :)

For a very explicit example of how polarizability is very important in the 
context of DNA-ion interactions, see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b00683

> As you said that it depends on force field so I am just curious to know
> which force field and water model one should use for simulating a system
> (preferably protein in water) at different salt concentration to see the
> effect of salt concentration on the structure of the protein.
>

There's lots of literature on this topic.  What you choose is up to your 
assessment of what might be most representative of your particular system.

-Justin

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