is this the complex after minimization?
I think to clarify things you should compare everything (complex and
separated) without the minimization part. just use the snapshot and
see if they match better. then you can start to work on whether
minimizing changes things.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Waqas Nasir <nasirwaqas1983.yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, here is the snapshot of what is happening;
>
> The complex after 110 ps has the following state;
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> KE Trans = 0.6333 KE Rot = 0.3647 C.O.M. Vel = 0.004305
>
> Translational and rotational motion removed
>
> KE Trans = 0.0000 KE Rot = 0.0000 C.O.M. Vel = 0.000000
>
> NSTEP = 50000 TIME(PS) = 110.000 TEMP(K) = 301.05 PRESS =
> 0.0
> Etot = -7479.4207 EKtot = 7086.0852 EPtot =
> -14565.5059
> BOND = 1667.4928 ANGLE = 4368.2446 DIHED =
> 2750.7951
> 1-4 NB = 2258.1214 1-4 EEL = 24925.2841 VDWAALS =
> -5072.6293
> EELEC = -41730.2276 EGB = -7313.0633 RESTRAINT =
> 3464.8770
> ESURF= 115.5992
> EAMBER (non-restraint) = -18030.3829
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The protein frame corresponding to this state, after minimization and single
> point md gives the following result;
>
>
> NSTEP = 0 TIME(PS) = 0.000 TEMP(K) = 360.54 PRESS =
> 0.0
> Etot = -12532.4964 EKtot = 8398.2944 EPtot =
> -20930.7907
> BOND = 299.1003 ANGLE = 1315.6820 DIHED =
> 5430.8743
> 1-4 NB = 1897.7521 1-4 EEL = 24137.4611 VDWAALS =
> -5414.9492
> EELEC = -41213.3212 EGB = -7495.9348 RESTRAINT =
> 0.0000
> ESURF= 112.5447
>
>
> And finally the result for sugar frame is;
>
>
> NSTEP = 0 TIME(PS) = 0.000 TEMP(K) = 335.14 PRESS =
> 0.0
> Etot = 152.8328 EKtot = 79.9191 EPtot =
> 72.9137
> BOND = 6.9118 ANGLE = 12.7070 DIHED =
> -28.8780
> 1-4 NB = 17.2280 1-4 EEL = 589.4409 VDWAALS =
> -25.5086
> EELEC = -395.3658 EGB = -107.0239 RESTRAINT =
> 0.0000
> ESURF= 3.4021
>
> And almost the same sort of values are there for all the frames. I dont know
> what should I make up of this result. The energy in sugars is terribly high.
> Any thougts to help???
>
> And Carlos, if you could please explain what sort of problem can I have in
> the protocol or in other words what exactly should be the protocol if not
> this...
>
> Thanks alot for your continous help,
> Awaiting your response,
> Regards,
> Waqas.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Neha Gandhi <n.gandhiau.gmail.com>
> To: amber.scripps.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:41:16 PM
> Subject: Re: AMBER: Need help... High energies for complex...
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you using charged carbohydrate such as heparin? Is there any drastic
> conformational change in receptor-carbohydrate complex? Are you using the
> coordinates from last snapshot to calculate the energies or you are starting
> with the initial complex?
>
> Regards,
> Neha
>
> 2008/9/3 Carlos Simmerling <carlos.simmerling.gmail.com>
>>
>> what do you get for energies if you simply separate the complex and do
>> sing point energy? you need to see if it's a problem in your protocol
>> for the minimization or if there is something that doesn't match in
>> the prmtop files. perhaps it's not the same parameters or force field
>> for the individual units as they have in the complex. I would suggest
>> using exactly the same procedure, restraints and all, on all parts of
>> your calculation (complex and separated).
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Waqas Nasir <nasirwaqas1983.yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yes, it was the same for single point energy calculations and the
>> > complex. I
>> > did it for snapshots both with and without restraints. But results dont
>> > seem
>> > to differ much...
>> > The main minimization on complex was with restraints on one of the sugar
>> > rings.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----
>> > From: Carlos Simmerling <carlos.simmerling.gmail.com>
>> > To: amber.scripps.edu
>> > Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:27:06 PM
>> > Subject: Re: AMBER: Need help... High energies for complex...
>> >
>> > did you use the same minimization procedure on the complex?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Waqas Nasir <nasirwaqas1983.yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Hope every one is doing fine.
>> >>
>> >> Well, I have done some manual single point energy calculations on my
>> >> protein
>> >> carbohydrate complex using amber version 8. The protein is a dimmer and
>> >> the
>> >> sugar is a tetra-saccharide. The values for the binding energy that I
>> >> am
>> >> getting are quite high and are in the order of negative 3500-4500 kcal.
>> >>
>> >> The script that I have used breaks each of 250 frames in my md run into
>> >> separate protein and sugar subunits. Minimization of about 500 steps is
>> >> then
>> >> performed on each subunit followed by single point md (one with 0 time
>> >> steps). The energies from sugar and protein md runs for a single frame
>> >> are
>> >> added up. The difference of this value is then taken with the actual
>> >> energy
>> >> of the complex, that results is ridiculously high values.
>> >>
>> >> Just wanted to have some thoughts on what might have gone wrong in
>> >> these
>> >> calculations. Or, what steps one might take to improve the results in
>> >> general.
>> >>
>> >> Any sort of check list is highly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks a lot for reading...
>> >> Stay blessed!
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Waqas.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Neha Gandhi,
> School of Biomedical Sciences,
> Curtin University of Technology,
> GPO Box U1987 Perth,
> Western Australia 6845
>
>
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