FAD has been prameterised previously. IIRC the parameters are in the
appendix of the thesis of Anton Feenstra. Try googling for him and you
should find it.
Cheers
Tom
Justin A. Lemkul wrote:
Giulia Gonnelli wrote:
Hello,
my name is Giulia Gonnelli and i'm a new user of the software Gromacs.
I'm performing an energy minimmization of several proteins containig
biological cofactors.
I have problems with the cofactor FAD which has not been parametrized
yet on the gromos forcefields. I was wondering how to add new parameters
fon unrecognised molecules in Gromacs. I found in literature that
actually there are some parameters for the FAD cofactor but i don't know
how and where do i have to add these parameters. I'm not used to use
gromacs so i apologyze for my simple question...and my english too.Thanks.
All the necessary components for a reasonable start at an FAD topology are
certainly part of the Gromos force fields. The FMN moiety is described in the
.rtp file, as well as ATP, which could be used for the other nucleotide. You
can piece the topology together from there. I have found that most functional
groups are quite transferable between different species in the Gromos parameter
sets. So, theoretically, you could write an .rtp entry for FAD and have pdb2gmx
build it automatically into your topology.
If you have a complete FAD topology that you trust, you can build an .itp file
for it. The manual (Chapter 5) is your friend here.
Be aware that parameterization in general is a very advanced concept, so if you
are going to be dealing with any other cofactors besides FAD, your life will get
complicated. Deriving new parameters is a task only suited for experienced
users who plan to devote a substantial amount of time (read: weeks or months) to
just deriving suitable parameters. The piecemeal approach I describe for FAD
seems to work pretty well, but may not always be possible or feasible.
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Parameterization
-Justin
Regards,
Giulia Gonnelli
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Dr Thomas Piggot
University of Southampton, UK.
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