From: Sting (stg1979_at_emails.bjut.edu.cn)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 21:23:24 CDT
Hi JC Gumbart,
sorry to disturb you again. As your suggestion, I read the paper of Jensen et al.carefully, and in this paper I still have some confusion:
1. Why they performed SMD in two directions?
2. It seems the most forces obtained from the inverse direction are negative and these had reduced the works computed in Fig 2.b. Do the negative values derive from the 'negative' direction?
3. In this paper, a formula 8 was used, but I can not have any clue from the tutorial 10Ala_tutor.
Since both the papers are from your group, they really puzzle me.
Thank you a lot!
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>I can attempt to answer but someone may correct me:
>
>1) I'm pretty sure it would be the former, although it seems at least
>in our group that people calculate it slightly differently (but I am
>pretty sure both ways are equivalent). Please see some papers from
>our group for more specifics on this point (I'm looking at right now
>for instance Jensen et al. "Energetics of glycerol conduction through
>aquaglyceroporin GlpF").
>
>2) The PMF is a force profile where as the activation energy is the
>amount of energy required to overcome the initial barrier. I do not
>know if the free energy of activation is different or not. I have
>never calculated a PMF myself, but one way to judge would be the size
>of the activation energy. 100 kJ/mol (~25 kcal/mol) does seem a bit
>large however and would likely only proceed if something else
>provided the energy or a conformational change took place (for
>comparison, thermal energy is only about 0.6 kcal/mol). One point I
>will make is that calculating accurate PMFs requires good sampling,
>so if you only ran one trajectory, it probably accumulated a large
>amount of irreversible work. Additional trajectories, appropriately
>averaged using Jarzynki's equality (again, papers from our group
>would be most helpful), may yield a lower number.
>
>More experienced people may feel free to chime in here. In any case,
>good luck!
>
>
>On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Sting wrote:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I have performed a series of SMD with a constant velocity of 10 Å/
>> ns to force a ligand release from the binding pocket and try to
>> reconstruct the PMF, and I have some problem as follow:
>>
>> 1. How to compute the works done during the process? Should it be:
>> The displacement of ligand*applied Force or The displacement of the
>> moving point which drag the ligand ?
>>
>> 2. What is the diffrence between the PMF and the Activation Energy
>> as well as that between it and the Free Energy of Activation, and
>> how to verify a reasonable PMF?
>>
>>
>> I really need someone to help me. Thank you in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sting
>> stg1979_at_emails.bjut.edu.cn
>> 2007-06-15
>
>
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致
礼！
Sting
stg1979_at_emails.bjut.edu.cn
2007-06-24
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