Re: [AMBER] MMPBSA on DNA-Protein-Ligand complex

From: Ray Luo, Ph.D. <ray.luo.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:35:57 -0700

Norbert,

You can set npopt = 0 to return to the classical non-polar solvent
model. npopt =1 was optimized for small ligand binding. It appears
that npopt=1 gives positive delta G for macromolecular associations,
as reported on the mailing list.

All the best,
Ray
--
Ray Luo, Ph.D.
Professor,
Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics, Chemical Physics,
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3900
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Norbert GARNIER
<norbert.garnier.cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
> sorry but it is npopt=1
> In the trj files i dont keep water
> Thank you
> Norbert
>
> Le 23/06/2015 14:37, Jason Swails a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Norbert GARNIER <
>> norbert.garnier.cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Amber Users
>>>
>>> I have performed 10 ns of MD simulations on a DNA-Protein-Ligand-Na+ and
>>> a zinc atom complex with Amber11.
>>> I would like to calculate the binding free energy of the ligand with the
>>> DNA-Protein part using MMPBSA.py.
>>>
>>> My input file is the following:
>>>
>>> &general
>>>       startframe=1, interval=5, endframe=5000, keep_files=2
>>>       receptor_mask=':1-299', ligand_mask=':300',
>>>       strip_mdcrd=1, strip_mask=':Na+:ZNA',
>>>       entropy=1,
>>> /
>>> &pb
>>>       nopot=1, cavity_surften=0.0378, cavity_offset=-0.5692,
>>>       fillratio=4, scale=2.0,
>>>       linit=1000, prbrad=1.4, radiopt=0,
>>> /
>>>
>>>
>> Is this input file is correct?
>> What is nopot?  That doesn't look like any MMPBSA.py variable I'm aware
>> of...  And your strip_mask only strips Na+ and ZNA residues.  Did you not
>> have explicit solvent?
>>
>> Also, what version of AmberTools are you using?
>>
>
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>
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