Re: Solvent model other than TIP3 for use with CHARMM FF in NAMD??

From: Aaron Oakley (oakley_at_rsc.anu.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 01:48:52 CDT

Wasn't CHARMM22 parameterized specifically with TIP3P?
I thought it was risky to use a different water model with
CHARMM.

On 20/06/2005, at 3:58 AM, Leonardo Sepulveda Durán wrote:

> Hello everyone!!!
>
> I just have finished some dynamics at 498K using explicit solvent NPT
> or NVE in NAMD, to unfold a protein. Nevertheless, it maintain its
> stability in my 2ns simulations. I have done implicit solvent
> simulations in CHARMM at 498K and the protein easily unfolds. So I
> think there would be some issue In the TIP3 solvent model (or better,
> he relation beetween protein and water paremeters) wich favours native
> state ensemble even under unfolding conditions used in literature (but
> with other solvent model and forcefield, F3C, flexible 3 center water
> model, and ENCAD), That is why I was wondering if there is another
> water model compatible with CHARMM FF able to be used in NAMD, to see
> if with it unfolding is easier to achieve.
>
> I have not revised the diferences beetween F3C and TIP3 yet, but I
> Think if the VdW parameters are more atractive unfolding can be
> favoured, I guess it would be more important than the use of bond and
> angle degrees of freedom, but I am not sure of that.
>
> So any comment about the issue would be very helpful
>
> Thanks
>
> Leonardo Sepúlveda Durán
> Universidad de Chile
>
>
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