On the same subject, I have read in the list about long-range interactions 
(Coul-LR, LJ-LR) which are supposed to be included in the energy parameters 
calculated in g_energy, but I never see those. Do you have to write something 
specific in the .mdp files to get them ?

Also, some of my inhibitors and complexes are charged. In my simulation of the 
complex, I have added a counterion (Na). Does this complicate matters worse ? 
For the inhibitors in water, I protonated the ligand, according to a procedure 
I saw in a paper.

Would it be simpler, in the case of the complexes, to protonate one residue 
away from the active site ?


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Diane Fournier
Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 10:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gmx-users] Ligand binding energy using LIE with PME
 
Hi gmx-users

I know that this has been discussed before from consultation of the mail 
archive, but there is still confusion :

I want to obtain the ligand binding energy from my 1ns PME simulation of a 
ligand-protein complex. I have made, as directed, a simulation (with PME) of 
the ligand in water to calculate Eqq and Elj. I am not using the g_lie program 
since I know I will need to mind the PME contribution.

I'm using (I hope I am correct) the average values of all ligand-protein 
(Coul-SR, Coul-14, LJ-SR, LJ-14) and ligand-rest (Coul-SR, Coul-14, LJ-SR, 
LJ-14) terms for the ligand complex simulation and all ligand-solvant terms 
(same) from the ligand in water simulation. In my case the 1-4 and ligand-rest 
terms are equal to zero, which I think is normal as no 1-4 interactions are 
defined between ligand and protein (since they are not covalently bonded) and 
that no restraints are applied.

It is for the so-called PME long-range contribution that I get confused. I have 
done a mdrun -rerun of my trajectory using a .tpr file where the ligand has 
zeroed partial charges for both simulations. From what I understood, the same 
energy terms as mentionned above have to be extracted from these rerun 
simulations and substracted from the previous terms as they represent what the 
ligand "feels" from PME from the image systems around the box. In my case, 
these contributions are very small (< 1kJ/mol), which I think is due to the 
fact that I am using a box size (d = 0.85nm for the protein, d = 2.0nm for the 
ligand) which is supposed to make PME artifacts negligible.  

I am just wondering if this is correct so far, or if I need to do other rerun 
simulations with zero charge on protein and solvant to obtain the PME 
contribution.  

Any input will be appreciated

Diane    


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