Re: [AMBER] using D-amino acids

From: Thomas Evangelidis <tevang3.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 18:01:29 +0200

On 3 December 2012 04:16, case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012, Thomas Evangelidis wrote:
> >
> > I want to create .prmtop and .inpcrd files for a protein/retro-inverso
> > peptide complex. I've read in older posts that there is no need to modify
> > any amber99sb (or its variants) library to include D-amino acids.
> However,
> > when I use regular amino acid names for the D- amino acids in the pdb
> file
> > I get errors like:
> >
> > FATAL: Atom .R<NASN 1>.A<HB1 19> does not have a type.
>
> You don't say how you created your input pdb file, but it looks like it is
> using the "old" (pdb version 2) atom names. I think you can get "reduce"
> to
> update the names, or protonate can do it. If there are just a few D-amino
> acids, you might even rename by hand.
>
> I made it with the D_SwissSidechain_chimera p;lu

http://swisssidechain.ch/visualization/chimera.html

You were right. It was a naming conflict. I fixed it with MOLPROBITY
(reduce and protonator did not change the atom names).

Thanks,
Thomas

>
> > and warnings like:
> >
> > WARNING: There is a bond of 4.673348 angstroms between:
> > ------- .R<NASN 1>.A<C 15> and .R<GLU 2>.A<N 1>
>
> This is a pretty straightforward message: if you indeed have such a long
> peptide bond in the PDB file, you need to address the question of how it
> got
> there.
>
> ....dac
>
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