AMBER: negative values of PBSOL and PBCAL in mm_pbsa result

From: tonglei <xbcdnana.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:07:47 +0800

Dear everyone
        I am trying use mm_pbsa of Amber8 to calculate the free energy of
protein-peptide complex
       but the results of PBSOL and PBCAL are negative values.
       Here is my output files, especially the DELTA : the PBCAL and PBSOL
is negative

# COMPLEX RECEPTOR
LIGAND
# ----------------------- -----------------------
-----------------------
# MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN
STD
# ======================= =======================
=======================
ELE -8819.26 81.68 -8270.79 73.29 -463.15
23.41

VDW -1597.84 28.15 -1518.95 26.69 -26.54
6.69

INT 8016.88 46.17 7600.80 40.58 416.08
13.63

GAS -2400.22 87.16 -2188.93 77.18 -73.62
24.31

PBSUR 102.85 0.93 97.33 0.86 12.68
0.19

PBCAL -5894.64 92.37 -5368.79 84.27 -479.58
16.26

PBSOL -5791.79 91.81 -5271.46 83.74 -466.90
16.17

PBELE -14713.90 38.77 -13639.57 36.54 -942.73
18.63

PBTOT -8192.01 41.32 -7460.39 38.02 -540.51
20.37

GBSUR 135.41 1.24 128.07 1.14 15.62
0.25

GB -4424.83 76.01 -3997.69 67.69 -537.64
20.92

GBSOL -4289.43 75.29 -3869.62 67.03 -522.01
20.84

GBELE -13244.09 26.08 -12268.48 24.63 -1000.79
6.23

GBTOT -6689.65 40.18 -6058.55 37.27 -595.63
12.28



#
DELTA
#
-----------------------
# MEAN
STD
#
=======================
ELE -85.33 10.21

VDW -52.35 3.82

INT -0.00 0.00

GAS -137.67 9.81

PBSUR -7.16 0.22

PBCAL -46.27 19.58

PBSOL -53.43 19.57

PBELE -131.60 15.41

PBTOT -191.10 15.28

GBSUR -8.29 0.30

GB 110.50 9.50

GBSOL 102.21 9.49

GBELE 25.17 2.34

GBTOT -35.47 3.01


    I know the PBSOL is usually opsitive. Could you tell me how to correct
this interm?
   Thank you very much

   Best regards

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