From: Giacomo Fiorin (giacomo.fiorin_at_temple.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 13:42:33 CST
Hi Francesco, if you set position restraints on just those two atoms (anion
and hydrogen from the protein), there's a chance that when you go on with a
long MD run, both the membrane and protein drift across the unit cell, but
the Glu hydrogen stays fixed, and this may distort the structure. I think
indeed the safest may well be to set up a distance colvar and a restraint on
that.
Giacomo
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello: Two unrelated questions, about which I was unsure after reading
> the 2.8 NAMD manual and web inquiry.
>
> (1) I want to fix the position of both an anion inside a transmembrane
> protein (inserted into a POPC bilayer, with TIP3 water around) and its
> ligand atoms (acidic proton of neutral GLU and positively charged N of
> arginine). Can that be done by simply setting 1 for those atoms in
> column B of the PDB file? Submitting the filename.fix file as fixed
> atoms for the heating stage after minimization, and subsequent
> pressure equilibration and production. Or should I use more complex
> harmonic restraints, such as distance colvars?
>
> (2) What about the dielectric constant for such an ensemble, spanning
> from 1 for the protein (and the lipid ?) and ca 80 for TIP3? Specific,
> authoritative tutorial, such as
> <http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~rlaw/ctbp_workshop_rlaw.htm> do not mention
> dielectric.
>
> Thanks for advice
>
> francesco pietra
>
>
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