From: Randy J. Zauhar (r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2018 - 16:54:20 CST
Actually, regarding my suggested approach below, where solvent vanishes and ligand appears (or vice-versa) …
Can I equilibrate with (e.g.) ligand turned off and active site solvent turned on? I am sure this must be possible?
Thanks!
Randy
On 17Feb, 2018, at 12:20 PM, Randy J. Zauhar <r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu>> wrote:
Hi Brian,
Is there any reason this would not work acceptably?
1) Equilibrate apo protein in solvent, active site is restrained in ligand-bound conformation
2) At end of equilibration, identify waters in active site by overlap with ligand atoms when bound.
3) Restrain active site water positions and re-equiibrate
4) Annihilate waters while creating ligand, and vice-versa to check reversibility. If I am correct I just need a merged PSF with both active site waters and ligand, and tag one group for creation, the other for annihilation.
I have not thought about the actual thermodynamic cycle that implies - Probably would need to do the same thing in bulk solvent (i.e. extract the active site waters and solvate them in a box as part of the annihilation/creation of ligand in bulk) ??
Thanks!
Randy
On 12Feb, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Brian Radak <brian.radak_at_gmail.com<mailto:brian.radak_at_gmail.com><mailto:brian.radak_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
A rather involved, but essentially equivalent route that could be pursued in NAMD is to apply an orthogonal bias (or series of biases) on the water molecules. The bias energy could then be removed in a reweighting step (this goes beyond the normal procedure implemented in ParseFEP, for example, so you should probably be comfortable writing your own WHAM code in order to attempt this).
I've never tried this, but I believe it could be implemented with boundary forces (tclBC)? You might profitably reduce the overall number of simulations by using an adaptive method like ABF or metadynamics to get a global bias (as opposed to a local bias like a harmonic restraint). Again, this is really complicated.
Accelerated MD (or Gaussian accelerated MD) or even simulated tempering might also work. We're actively trying to couple alchemical calculations with REST2 for essentially this purpose, but that will not be released until NAMD2.14 at the earliest (yes, that far ahead).
HTH,
Brian
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Randy J. Zauhar <r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu><mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu>> wrote:
Jerome, thanks - I see the issue of site de-solvation not being properly included. ;-(
One thing I will check is my protein preparation - it is possible that I removed crystallographic active site waters, and the ones that crept in are in fact occupying similar positions. In that case I could simply include the xtal waters. That would at least improve things.
Another would be to retain the ‘solvent wall’, and introduce some active site waters in place of the ligand. Could then do a separate simulation to annihilate the active site waters, which would also provide some measure of de-solvation by the ligand.
Ultimately we want to compare ligands for the same target, and the desolvation of the site should be similar for each.
Randy
P.S. I will take a look at the work by Yang, but do not contemplate moving to CHARMm over this!
On 11Feb, 2018, at 5:56 AM, Jérôme Hénin <jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr<mailto:jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr><mailto:jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr><mailto:jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr<mailto:jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr>>> wrote:
Hi Randy,
While adding a barrier to entry for water molecules may well make the simulation more reversible, it will also make it biased and give an overestimated binding affinity, by killing the binding site desolvation contribution.
It's a tough problem, but ideally this solvation/desolvation process needs to be sampled.
Improving the sampling of that kind of "orthogonal" process was the focus of some work by Wei Yang:
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/51/20227.full
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct200726v
But that's only implemented in CHARMM afaik. The theory is somewhat involved.
So I'm sorry to say, if it's a common problem, there is no universal, simple and consensual approach to it.
Best,
Jerome
On 10 February 2018 at 19:15, Randy J. Zauhar <r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu><mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu>>> wrote:
Hi,
I am running a ligand annihilation in a solvated system, and I would like to make it truly reversible if possible.
Issue is that a couple water molecules sneak into the active site when the ligand disappears. Then when I reverse and start creating the ligand, they are trapped.
A simple thing I will try is to constraint the water molecules close to the active site, hopefully creating a barrier to entrance.
However. this has to be a pretty common problem, is there a recommended approach to address it?
Thanks!
Randy
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Prof. of Biochemistry
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
600 S. 43rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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“Yeah the night is gonna fall, and the vultures will surround you /
And when you’re lookin’ in the mirror what you see is gon’ astound you"
— Death Cab for Cutie, “Monday Morning"
Randy J. Zauhar, PhD
Prof. of Biochemistry
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
600 S. 43rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215)596-8691
FAX: (215)596-8543
E-mail: r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu>
“Yeah the night is gonna fall, and the vultures will surround you /
And when you’re lookin’ in the mirror what you see is gon’ astound you"
— Death Cab for Cutie, “Monday Morning"
Randy J. Zauhar, PhD
Prof. of Biochemistry
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
600 S. 43rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215)596-8691
FAX: (215)596-8543
E-mail: r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu<mailto:r.zauhar_at_usciences.edu>
“Yeah the night is gonna fall, and the vultures will surround you /
And when you’re lookin’ in the mirror what you see is gon’ astound you"
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