On Tue, Mar 15, 2005, opitz.che.udel.edu wrote:
>
> I am trying to simulate a single strand of an oligonucleotide.
>
> At this point I am assuming that the reason for this is that the hydrogen
> bonding is not restricted in distance and that leap just picks any
> nucleotide that is complimentary to the another nucleotide when making
> the prmtop file. This then would lead to unreasonable hydrogen-bonding.
> Is there some way that I can restrict the distance nucleotides have to be
> from each other to be involved in hydrogen-bonding?
The force field itself determines what groups will hydrogen bond with others,
primarily by electrostatic complementarity. If a hydrogen-bond donar and
acceptor pair come close in space, they will have a favorable interaction; if
they are not close, there will be little interaction.
If you wish to artifically enforce certain H-bonds (say watson-crick pairs),
you could add distance or angle restraints, as outlined in Section 5.9
of the Users' Manual.
....good luck...dac
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