[gmx-users] trouble with ca2+ atom and SEP recognition in Gromacs 5.1.1

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Apr 21 11:54:23 CEST 2016



On 4/20/16 3:56 PM, Jayant James wrote:
> Hi!
> All I have been running into some trouble with CA2+ recognition in GMX
> 5.1.1.
> So some back ground......I have a protein that I am trying to simulate that
> has three chains.First chain is 161 amino acids long, second one is about
> 200AA and the third one is about 280 AA long.
> They have their terminal residues given with OXT and "ter" is given after
> each chain. Also this protein has two phosphorylated serines that are input
> as SEP.
> Since I am having two SEP molecules I am using the option#
> 10 GROMOS96 43a1 force field, extended to include phosphorylated residues
>
> Below is the description of the calcium atoms in the input PDB file
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ATOM   1283  CA  CA2+D 162      10.494  65.413  -1.733  1.00
> 78.08           C
> ATOM   1284  CA  CA2+D 163      14.370  25.685   8.168  1.00
> 78.08           C
> ATOM   1285  CA  CA2+D 164      18.826  35.294   3.395  1.00
> 78.08           C
>
> INPUT COMMAND
> --------------------------
>   gmx pdb2gmx -f start.pdb -p new -o new -merge all -ignh
>
>
> Concerns
> -------------
> 1) I am hit with error messages that tell me the calcium ions are not
> recognized (colored red). I'd appreciate a way to solve this.

They're recognized just fine, but apparently they're disrupting a protein chain. 
  A continuous chain has to be continuous with respect to residue type, 
otherwise pdb2gmx warns you that something is amiss.

> 2) Also the third chain having the SEP amino acids is not being
> recognizing!!! Colored blue

You need to add SEP as a Protein entry in residuetypes.dat.

> 3) The third chain is 192 aa long. But the program tells that it recognizes
> only till 22 aa although a few lines this it seems like it recognizes till
> the 192nd aa

See point #2.

-Justin

> I'd appreciate any suggetions that would help me tide over these errors
>
> Thank you
> James
>
>
>
>
>
> *ERROR MESSAGE*
> --------------------------
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/aminoacids.r2b
> Reading start.pdb...
> Read 3572 atoms
> Analyzing pdb file
> Splitting chemical chains based on TER records or chain id changing.
>
> Merged chains into joint molecule definitions at 2 places.
>
> There are 1 chains and 0 blocks of water and 443 residues with 3572 atoms
>
>    chain  #res #atoms
>    1 'D'   443   3572
>
> All occupancies are one
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/atomtypes.atp
> Atomtype 48
> Reading residue database... (gromos43a1p)
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/aminoacids.rtp
> Using default: not generating all possible dihedrals
> Using default: excluding 3 bonded neighbors
> Using default: generating 1,4 H--H interactions
> Using default: removing proper dihedrals found on the same bond as a proper
> dihedral
> Residue 101
> Sorting it all out...
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/aminoacids.hdb
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/aminoacids.n.tdb
> Opening force field file
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/share/gromacs/top/gromos43a1p.ff/aminoacids.c.tdb
>
> Back Off! I just backed up new.top to ./#new.top.2#
> Processing chain 1 'D' (3572 atoms, 443 residues)
> Analysing hydrogen-bonding network for automated assignment of histidine
>   protonation. 679 donors and 705 acceptors were found.
> There are 937 hydrogen bonds
> Will use HISE for residue 223
> Will use HISE for residue 35
> Will use HISE for residue 102
> Will use HISE for residue 173
> Identified residue MET1 as a starting terminus.
> Warning: Residue CA2+162 in chain has different type (Other) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue CA2+163 in chain has different type (Other) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue CA2+164 in chain has different type (Other) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Identified residue GLU161 as a ending terminus.
> Identified residue GLN202 as a starting terminus.
> Identified residue LYS288 as a ending terminus.
> Identified residue MET1 as a starting terminus.
> Warning: Residue SEP23 in chain has different type (Other) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue SEP24 in chain has different type (Other) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue ALA25 in chain has different type (Protein) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue ASN26 in chain has different type (Protein) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Warning: Residue TYR27 in chain has different type (Protein) from starting
> residue MET1 (Protein).
> Special Atom Distance matrix:
>                      MET1   MET45   MET47   MET60   MET80   MET81   MET85
>                       SD7   SD349   SD368   SD470   SD625   SD633   SD665
>     MET45   SD349   2.333
>     MET47   SD368   3.175   1.004
>     MET60   SD470   1.883   0.496   1.457
>     MET80   SD625   1.769   0.820   1.424   0.683
>     MET81   SD633   2.065   0.981   1.341   1.050   0.535
>     MET85   SD665   2.101   1.580   1.957   1.599   1.186   0.763
>    MET103   SD811   2.816   4.357   5.164   4.054   3.983   3.945   3.408
>    MET120   SD951   2.555   4.222   4.965   3.920   3.727   3.671   3.123
>    MET137  SD1082   1.849   4.018   4.779   3.627   3.383   3.485   3.172
>    MET157  SD1251   1.551   3.179   3.960   2.854   2.681   2.680   2.231
>    HIS223 NE21473   7.176   7.929   8.742   7.731   8.007   7.975   7.509
>      MET1  SD2041   3.767   2.480   1.797   2.734   2.252   2.074   2.527
>     HIS35 NE22305   1.047   3.366   4.179   2.909   2.763   3.045   3.012
>    HIS102 NE22835   6.395   7.370   8.229   7.126   7.375   7.374   6.916
>    MET155  SD3270   2.314   0.740   0.973   0.958   0.595   0.374   1.079
>    MET156  SD3278   2.603   1.313   1.260   1.541   1.089   0.585   0.840
>    HIS173 NE23408   5.480   3.326   2.516   3.818   3.786   3.462   3.668
>                    MET103  MET120  MET137  MET157  HIS223    MET1   HIS35
>                     SD811   SD951  SD1082  SD1251 NE21473  SD2041 NE22305
>    MET120   SD951   0.765
>    MET137  SD1082   1.912   1.391
>    MET157  SD1251   1.395   1.078   1.275
>    HIS223 NE21473   5.003   5.749   6.762   6.162
>      MET1  SD2041   5.815   5.393   5.030   4.501   9.999
>     HIS35 NE22305   2.748   2.420   1.262   1.747   7.244   4.560
>    HIS102 NE22835   4.192   4.937   5.879   5.383   1.003   9.418   6.376
>    MET155  SD3270   4.265   4.019   3.824   3.016   8.157   1.940   3.313
>    MET156  SD3278   4.242   3.948   3.877   3.031   8.215   1.790   3.553
>    HIS173 NE23408   6.790   6.650   6.836   5.825   9.678   3.077   6.495
>                    HIS102  MET155  MET156
>                   NE22835  SD3270  SD3278
>    MET155  SD3270   7.579
>    MET156  SD3278   7.656   0.624
>    HIS173 NE23408   9.382   3.206   3.020
> Start terminus MET-1: NH3+
> End terminus GLU-161: COO-
> Start terminus GLN-202: NH3+
> End terminus LYS-288: COO-
> Start terminus MET-1: NH3+
> End terminus ARG-22: COO-
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program gmx pdb2gmx, VERSION 5.1.1
> Source code file:
> /share/apps/gromacs/5.1.1/build/gromacs-5.1.1/src/gromacs/gmxpreprocess/pdb2gmx.c,
> line: 746
>
> Fatal error:
> Atom OXT in residue TRP 192 was not found in rtp entry TRP with 21 atoms
> while sorting atoms.
> .
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
> -------------------------------------------------------
>

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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Health Sciences Facility II, Room 629
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Baltimore, MD 21201

jalemkul at outerbanks.umaryland.edu | (410) 706-7441
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