Step Six: Equilibration
Equilibrating our protein-ligand complex will be much like equilibrating any other system containing a protein in water. There are a few special considerations, in this case:
Restraining the LigandTo restrain the ligand, we will need to generate a position restraint topology for it. First, create an index group for JZ4 that contains only its non-hydrogen atoms: gmx make_ndx -f jz4.gro -o index_jz4.ndx ... > 0 & ! a H* > q Then, execute the genrestr module and select this newly created index group (which will be group 3 in the index_jz4.ndx file): gmx genrestr -f jz4.gro -n index_jz4.ndx -o posre_jz4.itp -fc 1000 1000 1000 Now, we need to include this information in our topology. We can do this in several ways, depending upon the conditions we wish to use. If we simply want to restrain the ligand whenever the protein is also restrained, add the following lines to your topology in the location indicated: ; Include Position restraint file #ifdef POSRES #include "posre.itp" #endif ; Include ligand topology #include "jz4.itp" ; Ligand position restraints #ifdef POSRES #include "posre_jz4.itp" #endif ; Include water topology #include "./charmm36-mar2019.ff/tip3p.itp" Location matters! You must put the call for posre_jz4.itp in the topology as indicated. The parameters within jz4.itp define a If you want a bit more control during equilibration, i.e. restraining the protein and ligand independently, you could instead control the inclusion of the ligand position restraint file in a different #ifdef block, like so: ; Include Position restraint file #ifdef POSRES #include "posre.itp" #endif ; Include ligand topology #include "jz4.itp" ; Ligand position restraints #ifdef POSRES_LIG #include "posre_jz4.itp" #endif ; Include water topology #include "./charmm36-mar2019.ff/tip3p.itp" In the latter case, to restrain both the protein and the ligand, we would need to specify ThermostatsProper control of temperature coupling is a sensitive issue. Coupling every moleculetype to its own thermostatting group is a bad idea. For instance, if you do the following: tc-grps = Protein JZ4 SOL CL Your system will probably blow up, since the temperature coupling algorithms are not stable enough to control the fluctuations in kinetic energy that groups with a few atoms (i.e., JZ4 and CL) will produce. Do not couple every single species in your system separately. The typical approach is to set gmx make_ndx -f em.gro -o index.ndx ... 0 System : 33506 atoms 1 Protein : 2614 atoms 2 Protein-H : 1301 atoms 3 C-alpha : 163 atoms 4 Backbone : 489 atoms 5 MainChain : 651 atoms 6 MainChain+Cb : 803 atoms 7 MainChain+H : 813 atoms 8 SideChain : 1801 atoms 9 SideChain-H : 650 atoms 10 Prot-Masses : 2614 atoms 11 non-Protein : 30892 atoms 12 Other : 22 atoms 13 JZ4 : 22 atoms 14 CL : 6 atoms 15 Water : 30864 atoms 16 SOL : 30864 atoms 17 non-Water : 2642 atoms 18 Ion : 6 atoms 19 JZ4 : 22 atoms 20 CL : 6 atoms 21 Water_and_ions : 30870 atoms Merge the "Protein" and "JZ4" groups with the following, where ">" indicates the make_ndx prompt: > 1 | 13 > q We can now set Proceed with NVT equilibration using this .mdp file. gmx grompp -f nvt.mdp -c em.gro -r em.gro -p topol.top -n index.ndx -o nvt.tpr gmx mdrun -deffnm nvt
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