Re: [AMBER] Restraints on equilibration of solvated complexes

From: Dmitry Nilov <nilovdm.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:47:28 +0300

How long did you simulate?
In what a way receptor model was obtained?
Note, that ligand just can stick in a high energy minima during the
simulation and crossing of energy barrierrs to bind appropriately can
be hardly probable on the time scale of your simulation.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:25 PM, George Tzotzos <gtzotzos.me.com> wrote:
> Indeed. I've run production trajectories. In fact, I'm trying to reproduce some literature results. In my simulation the ligand forms Hbonds with a sub-set of residues reported in a published paper. This prompted me to suggest that my simulation does not explore the complete binding site.
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> On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Dmitry Nilov wrote:
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>> Hope you will perform conformational search by production trajectory
>> run without any restraints. Preliminary equilibration stages is just
>> for equilibration of the starting system).
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>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, George Tzotzos <gtzotzos.me.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
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>>> I've been running simulations involving ligand-receptor complexes and found that my ligand does not explore the complete conformational space of the binding pocket.
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>>> I have applied weak restraints on the complex by analogy to tutorial 3, that is restraint_wt=2.0 (http://ambermd.org/tutorials/advanced/tutorial3/section1.htm). The restraints was applied both on the protein residues and the ligand during both density and pressure equilibration. My question is whether removing the restraints on the ligand during pressure equilibration would result in a more effective search of conformational space.
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>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions on the matter.
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>>> Regards
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>>> George
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