Re: [AMBER] AMBER 94 Charges for terminal LYN, GLH, ASH and CYM residues and some other unusual cases.

From: Adrian Roitberg <roitberg.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 19:07:08 +0100

Dear Todd,
I am sure more people will tel you this, but please, please please do
not use Amber 94 parameters !
They are not recomended anymore, and we have better stuff out there.

Try instead ff99SB or ff03.

Adrian


todd.semichem.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing some code to assign AMBER 94 charges to proteins.
>
> I am using the data in the amino94.in, aminoct94.in and aminont94. files
> from the amber10.ffparms download.
>
> These files contain 3 sets of charge data for LYS: non-terminal residue
> form, amino-terminal (NH3+ end group) residue form and carboxyl-terminal
> (COO- end group) residue form).
>
> However, only data for the non-terminal residue form of LYN (the
> deprotonated form of Lysine, where the R group is neutral) appears to be
> present.
>
> Aplogies if this data exists and I'm not finding it. But if not, what is
> the recommended procedure to deal with charges for terminal LYN residues?
>
> Similarly, data for the terminal forms of GLH, ASH and CYM appears to be
> absent.
>
> Lastly, does charge data exist for the neutral end group forms of the
> amino-terminal and carboxy-terminal residues?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
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