[gmx-users] Heavy metals parameterisation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/9/17 6:04 AM, Alex Mathew wrote:
> Dear Gromacs users,
>
> I would like to study heavy metals (cadmium, mercury, lead, Arsenic,
> platinum and Chromium) interaction with proteins using charm36 ff.  Where
> and how I can get parameters for these heavy metals ions.? If it is not
> available where i should start, to develop the parameters for the same.
>

These are the only parameters I know of:

dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp309150r

But while they reproduce hydration free energies quite well, realize that no one 
has looked at their interactions with proteins, and additive models for any 
multivalent species are intrinsically very crude and therefore standard MM 
approaches may be inappropriate, depending on what you're trying to do.  QM/MM 
is much more common in these cases.

-Justin

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