[gmx-users] Semiisotropic pressure coupling

shivangi nangia shivangi.nangia at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 01:22:36 CET 2015


Hello Justin,

I have a follow up question.

The non-bonded parameters you have pointed out to :
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Force_Fields/CHARMM

is valid if the system contains only lipid or it should be use with a
system containing lipid and protein too.

Thanks,

sxn


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:10 PM, shivangi nangia <shivangi.nangia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot Justin!!!
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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
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>> On 2/15/15 1:02 PM, shivangi nangia wrote:
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>>> Dear Justin,
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>>> Thanks for the continuous help.
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>>> Since I have done reverse CG, The CG POPC was equilibrated alone
>>> anisotropically, The APL was fine there.
>>> On reverse CG and NVT its still fine, it only after NPT it starts
>>> dropping.
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>> Of course it's fine during NVT - the box can't change so the area is
>> constant.
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>>  I am calculating APL as (2*Lx*Ly)/(No. of Lipids).
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>> That's only valid for pure, symmetric membranes.  You have a protein
>> embedded in one leaflet, so this method is wrong.
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>>  You mentioned to get gull force field from your site, is it here:
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>>> http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/charmm_ff.shtml#gromacs
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>> Yes, that's the right place.
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>>  On unzipping this I see POPC is an .trp entry.
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>>> If there is some other database, kindly point it out to me.
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>> What I'm telling you is to use those force field files to (1) verify that
>> your POPC parameters are right (they should be) and (2) you'll have the
>> right protein topology (there are different bonded parameters that will
>> affect protein dynamics).
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>> Again, I must emphasize - troubleshooting the APL of this system with
>> respect to the known APL of pure POPC is pointless.  You have a protein
>> that convolutes (and potentially changes) everything.  If you want to
>> simulate pure POPC to verify that things are fine, do that.  But taking
>> more time on any perceived discrepancies here is not productive.
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>> -Justin
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