From: Norman Geist (norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de)
Date: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 05:54:19 CST
The energy of the system depends if your membrane has a membrane environment
or vaccum. Without pbc, you have vaccum and your energy wont minimize
correctly. You also have not to guess your box dimensions. They have to be
set right, so that the membrane will be continued periodicely to be
realistic, IMHO.
Good luck
Norman Geist.
Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im Auftrag
von kanchi subbarao rao
Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 12:20
An: R. Charbel Maroun
Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Betreff: Re: AW: namd-l: Energy minimization of membrane
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:49 PM, kanchi subbarao rao <ksubbu85_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
hi Maroun
Let me know how you are running minimization with out mention PBC in your
simulation in NAMD
The box size (whatever you mention in PBC it should be cover the whole
system). It is require to calculate PME (electrostatic) calculations.you
can use small grid size to calculate accurate,
by using keyword
PME yes
PMEGridSpacing 1.0
regards
subbarao kanchi
physics Dept
IISC bangalore
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:28 PM, R. Charbel Maroun <charbel.maroun_at_inserm.fr>
wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. It's not that I didn't want to use PBC. I
just wanted to know if it was necessary for a minimization. By the
way, before running MD, the system must be well minimized, otherwise
it might become unstable during the trajectory. It's part of the
equilibration step, before production.
I used CHARMM-GUI for building my membrane system. I ran last night an
energy minimization with PME and PBC for just the
water molecules and the K and Cl ions; lipids and receptor fixed (when
you use PME you need PBC). The question is what values to use for
PMEGridSize and cellBasisVector? What I did is that for the first set
I measured approximately on the screen the dimensions of the box size;
for the second set I just guessed slightly larger values. I don't know
if that's right.
The results of the minimization show that the ordered structure of
waters away from the phospholipid head groups was lost (good!). The
water layers above and below got flattened, more compact along the
axis perpendicular to the membrane, and wider in the axes of the
membrane. When I ran a minimization without PBC, one water molecule
would always escape from the box and get wild coordinates. NAMD would
then stop if you tried to use this coordinate set for further
calculations.
# PBC
cellBasisVector1 90.0 0.0 0.0
cellBasisVector2 0.0 109.0 0.0
cellBasisVector3 0.0 0.0 90.0
cellOrigin 0.0 0.0 2.0
wrapAll on
wrapWater on
dcdUnitCell yes
# PME
PME yes
PMEGridSizeX 85
PMEGridSizeY 85
PMEGridSizeZ 103
Any suggestions ?
Cheers,
C Maroun
Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> a crit :
Hi,
I'm not a specialist in bio chemistry, more on IT, but I would expect your
membrane as not big enough to be realistic without its periodic copys. So it
won't behave good, as it would be in vacuum, and the best energy
conformation achieved then, wouldn't be the one you want. I would expect
that it will relax more into a strange conformation, as in a realistic one.
Also, if you don't set PBC, your solvent will diffuse away, if there is one.
What's the reason for not want to set PBC in minimization? If you want to
look if your system want to expand, you can try that out with some different
box sizes, and with dynamics, not minimization as minimization will not move
the system much.
Correct me if required ;)
Best wishes
Norman Geist.
Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im Auftrag
von Boyang Wang
Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 06:31
An: R. Charbel Maroun
Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Betreff: Re: namd-l: Energy minimization of membrane
Hi Charbel,
I think PBC is necessary, but keep in mind that calculations will be much
slower.
Best,
Boyang
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:37 PM, R. Charbel Maroun <charbel.maroun_at_inserm.fr>
wrote:
Hello,
When we do energy minimization with NAMD of a protein-membrane system,
do we have to give PBC in the script, just like for a
molecular dynamics calculation or is this implicitely taken into
consideration? If not, that means that the protein-membrane system is
in vacuum and could become unstable during minimization.
Greetings,
C Maroun
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