Re: impose restraint on the internal coordinate of protein

From: Eduard Schreiner (eduard.schreiner_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2010 - 14:41:53 CDT

I think, this is not possible in NAMD (yet).
The closest to what you want to have is the extrabonds feature.
( you can see how it is used in the MDFF tutorial
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/science/mdff/tutorial_mdff-html/)
You could use that to restrain all the backbone dihedrals. However, your
monomers will still not be real rigid bodies.

eddi

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM, dhacademic <dhacademic_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about imposing restraint on protein.
>
> In my system, a dimer-of-dimer structure (protein) is merged in a water box,
> say dimer A (with monomer a and b) and dimer A' (with monomer a' and b'). I
> want to keep the structures as well as the relative orientation within the
> dimer, but to search the optimal orientation between the two dimers by MD
> simulations. How can I impose this kind of restraint in NAMD?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hao Dong
>
>

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