[gmx-users] Gibbs free energy landscape Vs. the stability of protein structure

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/21/15 4:00 AM, Naba wrote:
> Dear Gromacs users and Developers,
>
> I have performed dihedral PCA for 4 extracellular loops of a transmembrane
> protein after successfully finishing 100 ns of simulation at 300 and 310 K.
> I obtained figures for each loops for two different temperatures as in this
> link: http://s28.postimg.org/dlva5i42l/d_PCA.jpg .
>
> As we can see in that figure that, the loop L1 has got only one minimum at
> both temperatures, whereas, L2 and L3 have got 4 minima at 300 K. I have
> also calculated the amount of frames in percentages at their respective
> minima. It seems that L2 and L3 have got more number of frames at their
> minima when combined in comparison to L1. Now my question is:
>
> Can we say that L2 and L3 are tend to be more stable at 300K than that of
> L1 at the both temperatures?

I wouldn't make any argument about "stability" here.  Conformational sampling, 
maybe, but the question is whether or not these PCs are the same between the 
different simulations.  If you're not projecting one trajectory onto the other's 
eigenvectors, you're quite possibly comparing apples and oranges.

-Justin

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