Re: free energy of binding

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2011 - 17:12:34 CDT

Francesco,

We've implemented "free energy perturbation" and "thermodynamic
integration" methods for problems like yours. The free energy
perturbation tutorial, specifically sections 3 & 4, should help point
you in the right direction.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/namd/FEP/tutorial-FEP.pdf
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/namd/FEP/FEP-tutorial-files.tar.gz

Best,
Chris

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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I have the systems equilibrated with charmm ff and it would be
> too much work to change to amber ff. Second, the systems have lipids
> and amber ffs are not so good for lipids. Third, the system is based
> on a multimer protein and amber renumbers continuously all atoms,
> unlike charmm that preserves subunits. Examining interactions with
> continuous numbering will be headache. But it was kind from you to
> give details. I wish you success with the method.
> chiendarret
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Dong Luo <us917_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>> AmberTools has utilities to calculate free energy of binding from a single
>> MD trajectories that simulated with Amber force field. NAMD supports Amber
>> force field.
>> I recently did a test with this. It works though I am not sure of the
>> quality of the results because it's the first time for me to calculate the
>> binding free energy.
>> Briefly the steps are:
>> 1. Convert pdb file to Amber friendly format according to AmberTools'
>> manual. The online tool:
>> http://glycam.ccrc.uga.edu/ccrc/GlycamLITE/Protein/uploadIndex.jsp?option=ff99
>> can help with it.
>> 2. Using AmberTools' tleap to create parameter and coordinates input files
>> for MD. Again check with the manual.
>> 3. Edit NAMD configuration file to use the Amber force field. Check NAMD's
>> guide.
>> 4. Run the simulation.
>> 5. Calculate the free energy of binding following corresponding steps in the
>> Amber tutorial:
>> http://ambermd.org/tutorials/advanced/tutorial3/
>> Dong
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
>> To: NAMD <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:52 AM
>> Subject: namd-l: free energy of binding
>>
>> How could free energy of binding of a small-molecule ligand to a
>> protein receptor be calculated from namd md trajectories?
>> Is there a validated specific procedure for namd, or should a
>> literature method be imitated? For example Ã…qvist's method:
>>
>> Ã…qvist, J., Medina, C., and Samuelsson, J. E. (1994) A new
>> method for predicting binding affinity in computer-aided drug design.
>> Protein Eng. 7, 385–391.
>>
>> thanks for sharing experience on this hot topic
>>
>> francesco pietra
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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