Dear Vlad,
many thanks for suggestions. I've already seen some papers describing some
methodologies of structural refinement based of some enhanced sampling
methods. However in case of loop refinement what could be expected from the
brute-force md with aplied restraints on the rest of the protein (excluding
refined loops) using 1) implicit solvent 2) some high-temperatutre-based
method like simulating annealing.
James
2014-05-28 11:53 GMT+04:00 Vlad Cojocaru <vlad.cojocaru.mpi-muenster.mpg.de>
:
> Dear James,
>
> I am afraid you'd have to do some reading ... Its very hard to believe
> that somebody on this list has the time to give you detailed
> instructions. What you ask for is a summary of many different papers.
> The Amber manual has an example of simulated annealing protocol for NMR
> refinement which used to be with distance dependent dielectric (maybe it
> has changed in the meantime). Anyhow, you'd have to adapt that to the
> implicit solvent model you wish to use. The implicit solvent models are
> all well documented in the corresponding publications which are
> referenced in the Amber manual.
>
> Besides, take care how you interpret your results. The longer the loops,
> the less you can rely on the loop refinement. You'd need to run a number
> of different simulations, maybe even test different force fields ...
> Especially if loops are functionally important, you may easily draw
> wrong conclusions from such refinements. Comparison with experiments is
> always good.
>
> Best,
> Vlad
>
>
> On 05/28/2014 09:29 AM, James Starlight wrote:
> > I try to specify my question.
> >
> > I suppose that force field based simulated annealing with positions
> > restraints applied to the all protein atoms but not for loops which I'd
> > like to refine might be exactly what I'm looking for. Could someone
> suggest
> > appropriate SA setups for such loop refirement: e.g I'm interesting in
> > number of SA windows, coupling constants in each windows, appropriate
> > implicit solvent models?
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-26 14:06 GMT+04:00 James Starlight <jmsstarlight.gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Dear Amber's users!
> >>
> >>
> >> I need to refine some flexible regions (mainly long loop and linker
> >> regions) of my proteins prior to the production MD run using some
> enhanced
> >> sampling engines implemented in Amber like accelerated molecular
> dynamics
> >> or simulated annealing. Please provide me with some basic ideas of the
> >> easiliest realization of these methods in amber including suitable
> implicit
> >> solvent models for such task with the tutorials and further reading.
> >>
> >>
> >> TFH,
> >>
> >> James
> >>
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