[gmx-users] pdb2gmx error

Dries Van Rompaey dries.vanrompaey at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 10:18:14 CEST 2015


I did some more testing, it seems that this only occurs when the PRO
residue is preceded by a glycine. Could this be related to this issue:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.gromacs.user/72687 ? When I
change the glycine residue to anything else, pdb2gmx works like a charm. I
constructed a simple test system in which I can replicate the error (see
below).


REMARK  99 MOE v2014.09 (Chemical Computing Group Inc.) Thu Oct 15 10:05:39
2015
ATOM      1  N   ALA     1       0.268  -1.146  -1.547  1.00  0.00
  N1+
ATOM      2  CA  ALA     1       0.506   0.327  -1.714  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM      3  CB  ALA     1      -0.837   1.004  -1.931  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM      4  C   ALA     1       1.226   0.877  -0.480  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM      5  O   ALA     1       1.399   0.165   0.509  1.00  0.00
  O
ATOM      6  H1  ALA     1      -0.272  -1.324  -0.688  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM      7  H2  ALA     1      -0.224  -1.571  -2.343  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM      8  H3  ALA     1       1.161  -1.641  -1.413  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM      9  HA  ALA     1       1.151   0.435  -2.592  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     10  HB1 ALA     1      -1.364   0.570  -2.788  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     11  HB2 ALA     1      -1.480   0.906  -1.049  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     12  HB3 ALA     1      -0.710   2.074  -2.125  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     13  N   GLY     2       1.667   2.171  -0.583  1.00  0.00
  N
ATOM     14  CA  GLY     2       2.390   2.835   0.493  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     15  C   GLY     2       2.792   4.221   0.005  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     16  O   GLY     2       2.258   4.706  -0.997  1.00  0.00
  O
ATOM     17  H   GLY     2       1.519   2.744  -1.415  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     18  HA1 GLY     2       1.730   2.918   1.361  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     19  HA2 GLY     2       3.269   2.234   0.743  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     20  N   PRO     3       3.764   4.872   0.730  1.00  0.00
  N
ATOM     21  CD  PRO     3       4.331   4.472   2.006  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     22  CG  PRO     3       4.793   5.786   2.610  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     23  CB  PRO     3       5.270   6.581   1.399  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     24  CA  PRO     3       4.347   6.129   0.260  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     25  C   PRO     3       5.168   5.908  -1.021  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     26  O   PRO     3       5.520   4.796  -1.412  1.00  0.00
  O
ATOM     27  HA  PRO     3       3.538   6.843   0.069  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     28  HB1 PRO     3       6.318   6.337   1.188  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     29  HB2 PRO     3       5.212   7.661   1.568  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     30  HG1 PRO     3       5.571   5.654   3.367  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     31  HG2 PRO     3       3.945   6.303   3.076  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     32  HD1 PRO     3       5.175   3.804   1.803  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     33  HD2 PRO     3       3.599   3.952   2.629  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     34  N   ALA     4       5.499   7.083  -1.656  1.00  0.00
  N
ATOM     35  CA  ALA     4       6.262   7.165  -2.905  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     36  CB  ALA     4       5.416   6.725  -4.094  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     37  C   ALA     4       6.738   8.618  -3.177  1.00  0.00
  C
ATOM     38  OXT ALA     4       7.513   8.768  -4.161  1.00  0.00
  O1-
ATOM     39  O   ALA     4       6.290   9.477  -2.354  1.00  0.00
  O
ATOM     40  H   ALA     4       5.250   8.002  -1.288  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     41  HA  ALA     4       7.137   6.512  -2.806  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     42  HB1 ALA     4       4.539   7.372  -4.215  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     43  HB2 ALA     4       5.988   6.759  -5.027  1.00  0.00
  H
ATOM     44  HB3 ALA     4       5.053   5.700  -3.965  1.00  0.00
  H
TER      45      ALA     4
END


On 8 October 2015 at 14:15, Dries Van Rompaey <dries.vanrompaey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I definitely agree that it's odd that the warning only occurs with this
> specific residue. I ran a diff against the freshly downloaded AMBER03
> files, but they were identical. I also tried running it again with freshly
> downloaded amber03 files in the directory.
>
> About the error: pdb2gmx never crashed. It always runs to completion and
> mentions that the topology was successfully generated. I only get a warning
> during the execution of pdb2gmx.
>
> Thanks for all your help,
>
> Dries
>
>
>
> On 8 October 2015 at 13:33, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/15 1:54 AM, Dries Van Rompaey wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply Justin. I unfortunately cannot currently disclose
>>> the
>>> files that I'm working on. Based on the info presented, would you say
>>> that
>>> it's an issue with the force field definition or with the actual protein
>>> topology? I am not planning on using amber03 in my simulations at the
>>> moment, so this specific warning is not that important, but I can't help
>>> but wonder if this warning means something is off in the topology.
>>>
>>>
>> Given that error, there is no topology produced, so there's not going to
>> be a problem with the topology itself.
>>
>> I'm sorry to say that without your actual files, there's literally
>> nothing we can do to diagnose this.  You say some prolines work with
>> AMBER03 and others don't, which makes no sense at all.  Either the .rtp is
>> sound or it isn't. Either it is unmodified (which will work) or someone has
>> tampered with it and broken it.
>>
>> If you're not going to use AMBER03 and the topology is produced with
>> other force fields, then you know you have a problem with a hacked AMBER03
>> .rtp file.  It should be very straightforward to simply to a diff against
>> the unmodified version (which you can get by downloading a fresh GROMACS
>> tarball if you don't already have it).
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>
>> On 7 October 2015 at 23:05, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/7/15 5:03 PM, Dries Van Rompaey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Justin, that makes sense! I'm wondering why none of the other
>>>>> proline residues triggered that warning though? The same procedure
>>>>> works
>>>>> like a charm with other proteins.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Without access to all of the files you're looking at, the best I can do
>>>> is
>>>> shrug my shoulders because that doesn't make any sense.  Some prolines
>>>> work
>>>> and one doesn't?  That's just not logical.
>>>>
>>>> -Justin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 Oct 2015 10:59 pm, "Justin Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/7/15 3:01 PM, Dries Van Rompaey wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is Gromacs 5.0.4. This is a non-terminal residue.
>>>>>>> The command line used is:
>>>>>>> gmx pdb2gmx -f complex.pdb -o complex.gro (-ignh)
>>>>>>> I tried this procedure with and without ignh flag.
>>>>>>> As far as I know, specbonds is not in play.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Non-terminal proline does not have an amide H.  If your force field
>>>>>>> .rtp
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> file claims to use such an atom used in a dihedral (which is what the
>>>>>> error
>>>>>> message tells you is happening), find out who altered the file and
>>>>>> reprimand them :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Justin
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dries
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7 October 2015 at 20:56, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is it terminal? Are there specbonds in play? What's the GROMACS
>>>>>>>> version?
>>>>>>>> What's your pdb2gmx command line? :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:43 PM Dries Van Rompaey <
>>>>>>>> dries.vanrompaey at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm getting the following warning when I try to run pdb2gmx on my
>>>>>>>>> protein
>>>>>>>>> structure:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WARNING: WARNING: Residue 168 named PRO of a molecule in the input
>>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> mapped to an entry in the topology database, but the atom H used in
>>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> interaction of type dihedral in that entry is not found in the
>>>>>>>>> input
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> file.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Perhaps your atom and/or residue naming needs to be fixed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This warning is only present when I use the AMBER03 forcefield, all
>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>> forcefields seem to work fine. I have tried this with both a
>>>>>>>>> structure
>>>>>>>>> without hydrogens as well as a structure with hydrogens added, both
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> and without the -ignh flag. I tried looking at the amber03 database
>>>>>>>>> files
>>>>>>>>> as well as the amber99sb-ildn database files (amber99sb-ildn works
>>>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>>>> fine), but I could not find any reason why this particular residue
>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> problematic. pdb2gmx does not find any problems with the other
>>>>>>>> proline
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> residues in the protein (which look identical), so I am puzzled as
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> what's causing this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The proline residue is:
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1384  N   PRO A 168     274.650  45.241  24.167  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      N
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1385  CA  PRO A 168     273.508  44.823  23.370  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1386  CD  PRO A 168     275.844  45.381  23.346  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1387  CB  PRO A 168     274.071  44.405  22.014  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1388  CG  PRO A 168     275.381  45.194  21.892  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1389  C   PRO A 168     272.551  43.776  23.888  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>>>> ATOM   1390  O   PRO A 168     271.478  43.646  23.304  1.00180.63
>>>>>>>>>      O
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
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