[gmx-users] Zwitterionic amino acid topology parameters in CHARMM

rose rahmani rose.rhmn93 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:00:04 CET 2018


Thank you, but I couldn't understand you exactly. My structures already
have NH3+ and COO- . You mean everything is right? That's normal, yes?


On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 21:43 Justin Lemkul, <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/31/18 2:01 PM, rose rahmani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to use zwitterionic form of AAs in CHARMM ff. I gave structure in
> > Discovery studio and then use pdb2gmx to get its topology and ... files.
> > But the number of atoms in topol.top and also some atom's partial charges
> > are different from atoms and charges in aminoacids.rtp
> > For example, in the case of phenylalanine,
> > this is topology file after pdb2gmx:
> >
> > [ atoms ]
> > ;   nr       type  resnr residue  atom   cgnr     charge       mass
> typeB
> >    chargeB      massB
> > ; residue   1 PHE rtp PHE  q  0.0
> >       1        NH3      1    PHE      N      1       -0.3     14.007   ;
> > qtot -0.3
> >       2         HC      1    PHE     H1      2       0.33      1.008   ;
> > qtot 0.03
> >       3         HC      1    PHE     H2      3       0.33      1.008   ;
> > qtot 0.36
> >       4         HC      1    PHE     H3      4       0.33      1.008   ;
> > qtot 0.69
> >       5        CT1      1    PHE     CA      5       0.21     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.9
> >       6         HB      1    PHE     HA      6        0.1      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >       7        CT2      1    PHE     CB      7      -0.18     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.82
> >       8         HA      1    PHE    HB1      8       0.09      1.008   ;
> > qtot 0.91
> >       9         HA      1    PHE    HB2      9       0.09      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      10         CA      1    PHE     CG     10          0     12.011   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      11         CA      1    PHE    CD1     11     -0.115     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.885
> >      12         HP      1    PHE    HD1     12      0.115      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      13         CA      1    PHE    CE1     13     -0.115     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.885
> >      14         HP      1    PHE    HE1     14      0.115      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      15         CA      1    PHE     CZ     15     -0.115     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.885
> >      16         HP      1    PHE     HZ     16      0.115      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      17         CA      1    PHE    CD2     17     -0.115     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.885
> >      18         HP      1    PHE    HD2     18      0.115      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      19         CA      1    PHE    CE2     19     -0.115     12.011   ;
> > qtot 0.885
> >      20         HP      1    PHE    HE2     20      0.115      1.008   ;
> > qtot 1
> >      21         CC      1    PHE      C     21       0.34     12.011   ;
> > qtot 1.34
> >      22         OC      1    PHE    OT1     22      -0.67     15.999   ;
> > qtot 0.67
> >      23         OC      1    PHE    OT2     23      -0.67     15.999   ;
> > qtot 0
> >
> > and this is .rtp file for PHE:
> >
> > [ PHE ]
> >   [ atoms ]
> >          N       NH1     -0.47   0
> >          HN      H       0.31    1
> >          CA      CT1     0.07    2
> >          HA      HB      0.09    3
> >          CB      CT2     -0.18   4
> >          HB1     HA      0.09    5
> >          HB2     HA      0.09    6
> >          CG      CA      0.00    7
> >          CD1     CA      -0.115  8
> >          HD1     HP      0.115   9
> >          CE1     CA      -0.115  10
> >          HE1     HP      0.115   11
> >          CZ      CA      -0.115  12
> >          HZ      HP      0.115   13
> >          CD2     CA      -0.115  14
> >          HD2     HP      0.115   15
> >          CE2     CA      -0.115  16
> >          HE2     HP      0.115   17
> >          C       C       0.51    18
> >          O       O       -0.51   19
> > so as you see there O and 2 H more...  . I know that's because of COO
> group
> > and HH.. but which of them are the real structure of zwitterionic form of
> >   amino acid in force field? are both true? I would be appreciated if you
> > can help me.
>
> Just apply the normal NH3+ and COO- terminal patches. There are no
> special zwitterion patches like in some force fields (OPLS, etc.)
> Naturally, the .rtp will change - that is the function of the .tdb entries.
>
> -Justin
>
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