Re: [AMBER] minimize protein with a small molecule tethered at a fixed location

From: Bill Ross <ross.cgl.ucsf.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:34:58 -0700

Everything might be centered on the origin, maybe even axis-aligned. If
you load both, it should look like a true double image if that applies.

Bill

On 10/16/19 6:32 AM, Debarati DasGupta wrote:
> Hello Prof Case,
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> Yes I have looked at the complex before minimization and after minimization.
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> Please find my attached input file for leap, my setup.pdb and my minimized.pdb , if that helps to make my question understandable.
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> My point of interest is C2 atom of C3N molecule should be fixed at -6.000 14.000 -2.500 location.
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> It moves a lot even after restraining the molecule with 500 restrain weight.
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> I do not understand why is it so.
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> Looking to hear back from you.
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> From: David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:22:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [AMBER] minimize protein with a small molecule tethered at a fixed location
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> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, Debarati DasGupta wrote:
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>> I have a 286 residue protein and I have a acetonitrile molecule and
>> TIP3P waters. Now I want my acetonitrile molecule tethered to a fixed
>> x,y,z location. SO I deleted the x,y,z coordinates of the C2 atom
>> (central Carbon) of ACN and plugged in my x,y,z values. Then I did a
>> transformation in Pymol to put everything in the same reference frame.
> This last sentence is hard to understand, and we don't know what pymol
> has done. Have you (a) looked visually at the complex before
> minimization? (b) looked at the ACN coordinates, after pyMol but before
> minimization? Do they match the the "before minimization" coordinates
> you gave? (c) visually looked at the complex after minimization? Is
> the ACN in the proper location relative to other parts of the system?
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> A 500 kcal/mol restraint will keep your residue from moving. My best
> guess is that there is some operator error here: are you sure that the
> ACN coordinates in the "-ref" file are really a lot different from the
> ones in the restart file after Amber minimization?
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> ....dac
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