[gmx-users] Protein preparation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 3/26/17 12:39 PM, Quin K wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> I have another question. I used MODELLER on Chimera to fix the protein and
> found that there were significant visible changes to structure of protein.
> I'm not sure whether to use the old protein or the fixed one.
> Does it really matter that I used unfixed protein if the structure of
> binding site(s) and important chain features remain the same ?
> For the 50 ns MD simulation I never fixed the protein.
>

This all depends on what "fixed" means.  Were there missing residues?  Clashes 
in the structure?  In the case of the former, without a "fix" then the missing 
residues will cause lots of problems.  In the case of the latter, energy 
minimization is usually sufficient to alleviate any problems.

-Justin

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