[gmx-users] on md of protein-ligand

[Brett]

Dear All and Justin,


Suppose my protein complex contain 4 ADP, each ADP was in one subunit. Suppose we use ATB to create the ligand ADP files for md. It seems the situation is, regardless of which of the 4 ADP pdb files was submitted, ATB will only give one identical set of topology files for ADP, and it cannot distinguish from which ADP ligand ATB  got the topology files for all 4 ADPs.


Here it lead to the question, how does GROMCS knows the position of each ADP in the protein complex during the md process?


Let us think the question from another view. We have a protein-ligand complex pdb, and the complex contains 1 subunit and 1 ligand. We got the protein topology file by pdb2gmx, and we will find in the gro file the value of the coordinates have been changed from the original pdb coordinates for the protein-ligand. The same is true for the ligand, and if we use prodrug to get the topology file for the ligand, we will find the coordinate values of the ligand have been changed in comparison with that in the ligand pdb from the protein-ligand pdb.


Thus, I would like to ask, after we edited the gro files by combining the protein part coordinates and ligand part coordinates, how GROMCS keeps that once the compiled gro file was transformed back to pdb, the ligands were in the correct ligand binding pocket in the protein?

I am looking forward to getting the reply from you.


Brett











At 2016-04-19 20:13:03, "Justin Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
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>On 4/19/16 8:10 AM, Brett wrote:
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>> It seems the external servers preparing the ligand files (antechamber for example) not only optimize the coordinates of the ligands, but it changes the ligand from one place to another place, thus the ligand coordinates by the external server cannot occupy the ligand binding pocket in the original protein-ligand complex.
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>> I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on how to have the external server processed ligand find the ligand binding pocket in the protein-ligand complex for md.
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>Topology-generating servers aren't going to "find the ligand binding pocket" - 
>your job is to make sure the original coordinates are preserved, as the previous 
>message has instructed you on how to do.
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>-Justin
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>> At 2016-04-19 19:44:23, "suniba" <sun.iba2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> After pdb2gmx, protein topology is prepared. You prepare the ligand topology from an external server or parametrize it. Then you prepare complex.gro and include the ligand topology manually in topol.top (topology generated by pdb2gmx). And for your second question, I used ATB today and realized that one should always use "original geometry" co-ordinates as 'optimized geometry' will/may cause clashes with protein etc.. So, avoid PRODRG server and use ATB and then download the co-ordinates and .itp of original geometry. Rest process is same as mentioned in tutorial.
>>> Regards
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On 19-Apr-2016, at 4:58 pm, Brett <brettliu123 at 163.com> wrote:
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>>>> Dear All,
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>>>> I am learning the md of protein-ligand based on the Justin on-line tutorial. My first question is, for the topology files we need to produce the protein part and ligand part separately, and the input for pdb2gmx did not contain the ligand part. After I got the ligand files, I find the coordinate of the ligands was different from the ligand pdb in the protein-complex pdb (although the rmsd between the ligand topology and the ligand in the complex was 0). Then during md process how does GROMCS know where is the position of the ligand in the complex?
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>>>> Correspondingly, my second question is, suppose I have a protein dimer with 2 identical subunits, 1 subunit was a cAMP binding, and 1 was apo. Then during the md process how does GROMACS know which subunit binding with the cAMP and which subunit was apo?
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>>>> I am looking forward to getting a reply from you.
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>>>> Brett
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