Thanks Carlos!
I will check ff99SB and papers.
Cheers,
Alan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Carlos Simmerling
<carlos.simmerling.gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan,
> you might also use ff99SB- most people doing comparisons these
> days find it performs better than ff03 with respect to NMR, etc.
> we've used it extensively for HIV PR. In addition to having
> correct termini, the side chain dihedrals match the charges-
> in ff03 I don't think this is the case (maybe Yong can clarify this).
> carlos
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Alan <alanwilter.gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I see your point.
>>
>> In this case it's a HIV Protease and the NPRO is not involved in the
>> active site, although it's not a flexible tail either. Anyway, even if
>> it was involved in active site, I never heard about building block
>> designed to have not integral charges. I checked all N- and C- termini
>> for ff03.r1 and only NPRO shows this oddity.
>>
>> I am sticking with original ff03 for the moment.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Carlos Simmerling
>> <carlos.simmerling.gmail.com> wrote:
>>> perhaps- but it is always good to think carefully about this
>>> before building your system. for example, one of our systems
>>> has the NPRO in the active site and it is intimately involved
>>> in substrate binding. terminal residues are not always just flexible tails.
>>> carlos
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, FyD <fyd.q4md-forcefieldtools.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The terminal fragments of a protein are
>>>> exposed to the solvent; so using those form the Cornell et al FF should be
>>>> ok.
>>>>
>>>> regards, Francois
>>>>
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