Re: [AMBER] Incorrect handling of phenylalanine amide by antechamber

From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:35:35 +0200

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:24 PM, case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>
>>
>> My task is preparing prmtop/inpcrd for a peptide containing
>> phenylalanine amide. This is why I tried to get prepin/frcmod files to
>> feed to leap along with the pdb file of the peptide. Could you please
>> suggest a promising move from here?
>
> Use the mol2 file instead of prepi; we would like to retire prepi anyway,
> since it is an Amber-only format, whereas mol2 is widely used.

I must check the status of my tools, not used for Amber for a while.
Something must be out of order. In fact:

$AMBERHOME/exe/xleap -s -f $AMBERHOME/dat/leap/cmd/leapcrd.ff99SB

source leaprc.gaff

x = loadmol2 pha.mol2


It does not proceed. "top -i" shows a line for "xaleap" without any
advancement for at least 30 minutes. The xleap window is like dead.
 A check with the sustiva tutorial showed sustiva.mol2 immediately
loaded on xleap (although the final prmtop/inpcrd are not accepted by
Chimera, while with VMD one of the phenyl CH is largely out of the
plane of the other five CHs).

I dare adding here pha.mol2 - generated with antechamber - which opens
correctly with VMD:

.<TRIPOS>MOLECULE
PHA
   25 25 1 0 0
SMALL
bcc


.<TRIPOS>ATOM
      1 N -1.4440 -3.1720 1.4630 n4 4 PHA -0.824700
      2 CA -1.4110 -3.3770 2.9090 c3 4 PHA 0.036000
      3 CB -0.4300 -4.5020 3.2900 c3 4 PHA -0.048600
      4 CG 0.9780 -4.2990 2.7780 ca 4 PHA -0.175300
      5 CD1 1.3130 -4.6540 1.4600 ca 4 PHA -0.144600
      6 CD2 1.9830 -3.7920 3.6150 ca 4 PHA -0.121900
      7 CE1 2.5920 -4.3990 0.9590 ca 4 PHA -0.116400
      8 CE2 3.2690 -3.5500 3.1200 ca 4 PHA -0.114500
      9 CZ 3.5700 -3.8370 1.7840 ca 4 PHA -0.094400
     10 C -1.1250 -2.0320 3.5690 c 4 PHA 0.644800
     11 O -0.1320 -1.7830 4.2090 o 4 PHA -0.598600
     12 N2 -2.0430 -1.0570 3.4130 n 4 PHA -0.624700
     13 H -0.6440 -2.6240 1.1830 hn 4 PHA 0.480300
     14 HA -2.4080 -3.6900 3.2200 hx 4 PHA 0.116800
     15 HB2 -0.3920 -4.5680 4.3770 hc 4 PHA 0.097800
     16 HB3 -0.8110 -5.4450 2.8970 hc 4 PHA 0.091500
     17 HD1 0.5760 -5.1280 0.8290 ha 4 PHA 0.138400
     18 HD2 1.7620 -3.5860 4.6520 ha 4 PHA 0.148300
     19 HE1 2.8250 -4.6370 -0.0680 ha 4 PHA 0.158800
     20 HE2 4.0290 -3.1420 3.7690 ha 4 PHA 0.161100
     21 HZ 4.5540 -3.6250 1.3920 ha 4 PHA 0.162100
     22 H21 -2.8820 -1.2340 2.8790 hn 4 PHA 0.332300
     23 H22 -1.8920 -0.1500 3.8300 hn 4 PHA 0.358000
     24 H1 -1.4190 -4.0670 0.9950 hn 4 PHA 0.472700
     25 H2 -2.2920 -2.6840 1.2110 hn 4 PHA 0.464800
.<TRIPOS>BOND
     1 1 2 1
     2 1 13 1
     3 1 24 1
     4 1 25 1
     5 2 3 1
     6 2 10 1
     7 2 14 1
     8 3 4 1
     9 3 15 1
    10 3 16 1
    11 4 5 ar
    12 4 6 ar
    13 5 7 ar
    14 5 17 1
    15 6 8 ar
    16 6 18 1
    17 7 9 ar
    18 7 19 1
    19 8 9 ar
    20 8 20 1
    21 9 21 1
    22 10 11 2
    23 10 12 1
    24 12 22 1
    25 12 23 1
.<TRIPOS>SUBSTRUCTURE
     1 PHA 1 TEMP 0 **** **** 0 ROOT





>
>>> These prepin and frcmod file are not accepted by Chimera, while VMD
>>> shows a highly deformed structure (much too long C=O bond, phenyl
>>> hydrogens out of plane and ring distorted; NH3 also distorted.
>
> What options did you use in VMD?  I don't see anything obvious that would
> allow VMD to read an Amber prepi file.

Sorry, I meant from prmtop/inpcrd created with leap.

Thanks for you kind help. francesco pietra

>  What happens if you convert the prepi
> file back to mol2 or pdb format using antechamber?

Not tried yet due to the mess above.
>
>
> ....dac
>
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