[gmx-users] six member ring won't stay flat

MD refmac5 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 21:43:01 CET 2018


Hi Mark,
Can you tell me more details about the ring's atoms interacting with an
environment? What interactions did you mean?
Thanks,
Ming

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You still have many sources of problems (e.g. the warnings you suppressed,
> the fact that your ring's atoms interact with an environment). What happens
> when you minimize a capped peptide in vacuo?
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:39 PM MD <refmac5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > I got the itp and parameters of my side chain modified amino acid from
> > CHARMM-GUI and incorporated it into my protein structure, labeled with
> > HETATM. I made the atom types names consistent with charmm forcefield
> which
> > I used with gromacs and made sure overall the parameters look decent for
> > now. After some fixing the grompp would run with no warnings, and I did a
> > quick energy minimization, but ended up with a distorted six member
> ring. I
> > have the picture and my parameters attached. Your time is appreciated :)
> >
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bjSq55HDLRsSVGqm5i0MRwI-
> rgIesxy0QdIHm7tqTug/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > Ming
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/15/18 7:45 PM, MD wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Gromacs,
> > >>
> > >> I have a modified side chain amino acid and it has a six member ring
> > >> attached to it. Regarding this ring I had dihedral angles taken care
> > with
> > >> some 0s and some 180s. However, after minimization my structure looks
> > very
> > >> strange, the ring is not flat and the dihedral angles in my settings
> > >> didn't
> > >> seem to apply to the minimized structure at all. Any thoughts?
> > >>
> > >
> > > You're going to have to provide a lot more detail. You're parametrizing
> > > something nonstandard, so there are plenty of places to make mistakes.
> > > Without knowing your structure, the actual parameters and how derived
> and
> > > validated them, there's nothing to do but guess.
> > >
> > > Keep in mind that rings are not necessarily perfectly planar, and the
> > > values set for dihedral phase offsets do not strictly mean the values
> > that
> > > the dihedrals must adopt.
> > >
> > > -Justin
> > >
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