; APR input file ; AMBER settings Amber16 = NO ; Use Amber 16 or older Amber versions (YES/NO) hmr = NO ; Use hydrogen mass repartitioning (YES/NO); remember to use a relatively large stepsize (eq_dt and dt) exe_path = '$PMEMD_RUN' ; Other avaiable options include: 'mpirun -np 12 pmemd.MPI', 'pmemd', 'sander'... temperature = 298.15 ; For MD simulations and TI analysis (in Kelvin) perturb = NO ; Perturb GAFF parameters (YES/NO); new_parameters.dat needs to be provided in setup/param_files ; Variables for setting up umbrella sampling windows attach_list = [0.00, 0.40, 0.80, 1.60, 2.40, 4.00, 5.50, 8.65, 11.80, 18.10, 24.40, 37.00, 49.60, 74.80] translate_list = [0.00, 0.40, 0.80, 1.20, 1.60, 2.00, 2.40, 2.80, 3.20, 3.60, 4.00, 4.40, 4.80, 5.20, 5.60, 6.00, 6.40, 6.80, 7.20, 7.60, 8.00, 8.40, 8.80, 9.20, 9.60, 10.00, 10.40, 10.80, 11.20, 11.60, 12.00, 12.40, 12.80, 13.20, 13.60, 14.00, 14.40, 14.80, 15.20, 15.60, 16.00, 16.40, 16.80, 17.20, 17.60, 18.00] ; Force constants for restraints distance_force = 5.0 ; kcal/mol/Angstrom**2 angle_force = 100.0 ; kcal/mol/rad**2 ; Solvation solvent_model = CHCl3 ; currently support: TIP3P, TIP4P-Ew, OPC, SPC/E, CHCl3, MeOH, NMA number_solvents = 376 warning = YES ; A warning message can be printed out if the number of water molecules requested above is not close to estimation (YES/NO) ; Counterions neutralizing_cation = Na+ ; for neutralization only, not used for positively charged or neutral system neutralizing_anion = Cl- ; for neutralization only, not used for negatively charged or neutral system cations = Na+ ; Atom type if extra salt is needed to mimic buffer conditions number_cations = 0 ; anions = Cl- ; Atom type if extra salt is needed to mimic buffer conditions number_anions = 0 ; ; Specifying receptor and ligand atoms for setting up restraints lIG = :PIR ; Specify the residue name or the residue number of the ligand H1 = :CB6@C8 H2 = :CB6@C2 H3 = :CB6@C10 G1 = :PIR@N1 G2 = :PIR@C4 ; Variables for the NPT equilibration phase eq_dt = 2 ; A step size of 2 fs eq_nstlim = 1250 ; Run 1250 equilibraton steps, to give a equilibration time of 5 ps per cycle and 250 ps in total (the number of iterations is fixed as 50) eq_barostat = 2 ; Options for barostat; 1 is Berendsen and 2 is Monte Carlo eq_cutoff = 9 ; 9 Angstrom cutoff distance for the van der Waals interactions ; Variables for production runs dt = 2 ; A step size of 2 fs nstlim = 2500000 ; Run 1,250,000 molecular dynamics steps, to give a simulation time of 2.5 ns per cycle ntpr = 250 ; Write to the output file every 250 steps (1 ps) ntwx = 250 ; Write to the trajectory file every 250 steps (1 ps) barostat = 1 ; Options for barostat; 1 is Berendsen and 2 is Monte Carlo cutoff = 9 ; 9 Angstrom cutoff distance for the van der Waals interactions strip_solvent_ions = NO ; Strip water and ions in the MD trajectories (YES/NO), YES is recommended to save disk space maxcycle = 20 ; the number of trajectories in one window. The maximum number is fixed as 20. maxsem_attach = 0.02 ; the threshold of standard error of the mean (SEM) for the forces in the attach phase; in kcal/mol maxsem_pull = 0.1 ; the threshold of SEM for the forces in the pulling phase; in kcal/mol maxsem_release = 0.02 ; the threshold of SEM for the forces in the release phase, only used if there are (additional) conformational restraints; The value should match sem_attach jacks = NO ; Use conformational restraints (YES/NO) ; Used if there are conformational restraints (jacks = YES) jacks_distance = 15.0 ; Angstrom, value may vary with systems jacks_force = 25.0 ; kcal/mol/Angstrom**2, values may vary with systems jacks_list = [:OCT@O20, :OCT@O19, :OCT@O13, :OCT@O18, :OCT@O14, :OCT@O17, :OCT@O15, :OCT@O16, :OCT@C61, :OCT@C50, :OCT@C62, :OCT@C49, :OCT@C56, :OCT@C67, :OCT@C55, :OCT@C68, :OCT@C79, :OCT@C85, :OCT@C75, :OCT@C81, :OCT@C69, :OCT@C91, :OCT@C74, :OCT@C96]