[gmx-users] D- &/or L- cmap for charmm36

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/21/16 1:43 AM, HENRY WITTLER wrote:
> Greetings.
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> If anyone can give insight please.
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> I want to do a MD for insulin a 51aa protein, mutating one residue from L to D-Ser.
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> I have runned 1.5us for the L- Ser (with cmap), and want to repeat it for the D-Ser, with gmx v.5.0.4 charmm36 mars14 version.
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> It seems in the traditional CHARMM one have to change dihedrals involved with changing L- to D- (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/science/topology/topology-html/node4.html), also the cmap is for L-aa (http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/~kenno/cgenff/faq.php).
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> In link http://www.swisssidechain.ch/D_residues.php gives topology D-aa for gmx-charmm, without changing anything about cmap.itp, only .hdb and .rtp.
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> Previous discussions (http://gromacs.org_gmx-users.maillist.sys.kth.narkive.com/r1t0ZqeF/converting-l-to-d-amino-acid-in-the-charmm-force-field-in-gromacs-where-to-alter-dihedral) and my own testing MD and looking at it in vmd etc, seems to imply that the .top, .itp do not distinguish about chirality, is this the case?
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> How is cmap.itp implemented in gmx, is these parameters for L-, and D- aminoacids?
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The parameters provided are for L-amino acids.  There are D-amino acid CMAP 
parameters available in CHARMM, but not in GROMACS format.  See the latest force 
field distribution on http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/charmm_ff.shtml#charmm and 
look in stream/prot/toppar_all36_prot_d_aminoacids.str

The D vs L stereochemistry is made possible by assigning a special atom type to 
the CA atom (CTD1 instead of CT1) so you can apply residue-specific parameters.

-Justin

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