On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, Steven M. Graham wrote:
>
> Has Amber ever been modified to account for the anomeric and/or gauche
> effects. There are plenty of modifications to handle carbohydrates,
> but I do not seem to be able to find the corresponding modifications
> for nucleosides. I mean, sure, Amber was parametrized using nucleoside
> data...
I'm not sure what you mean by "modified" here. So-called anomeric
interactions play an important part in determining the sugar pucker profiles,
and such interactions have been a part of the parameterization of force fields
from the very beginning. In a qualitative way, one could point to the
presence of two-fold torsion terms, but torsions, electrostatics and
Lennard-Jones terms interact in a complicated way in ribose and deoxyribose.
The complete potential reproduces (to some level of accuracy) profiles from
quantum chemistry calculations that in turn contain anomeric effects.
But there won't be anything like a "modification" that incorporates
(previously missing) anomeric and gauche effects.
...hope this helps...others know a lot more than I do about this....dac
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