Kavyashree M wrote:

Dear gromacs users,

I went through the papers dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp003919d <http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp003919d>. on OPLS,
Its is stated in the paper

"Intermolecular interactions were truncated at 11 Å, with the standard
correction for the interactions beyond that radius. The electrostatic
interactions were quadratically feathered to zero over the last 0.5 Å
before the cutoff distance."


another OPLS reference
"Optimized Intermolecular Potential Functions for Liquid
Hydrocarbons" - J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1984, 106, 6638-6646

"In most cases, the intermolecular nonbonded interactions were truncated
at 11 Å based on roughly the center-of-mass separations with quadratic
smoothing of the interaction energy to zero over the last 0.5 Å. The cutoff
for alkenes and acetals was 13 Å, while for propanol, cyclohexane,
2-methyl-2-propanol, phenol, ethyl methyl sulfide, NMA, DMA, and NMP it was
extended to 15 Å."

So from these and other references of OPLS - AA force field, is it possible to
set a range for vdw, coulomb interactions, so that we can use in that range
according to the system we are working on?


No.  Only one value is possible.

Pardon me if the question is wrong. Your references and books will be of
great help for me.

Can anyone suggest regarding the preference of vdw_type (cutoff/shift or
switch),


I have seen both used in the literature. There is probably nothing wrong with a plain cutoff for vdW, but you have to be able to justify your choices. Do some more reading, find out if a plain cutoff for vdW is adequate, and make your decision based on what you find.

-Justin

Thank you
MKS



On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>> wrote:



    Kavyashree M wrote:

        I went through few papers related to OPLS-AA, but could not find
        any specific values mentioned for vdw and coulomb intecations..
        In one of the papers
        ".....In most cases, the intermolecular nonbonded interactions were
        truncated at 11Å based on roughly the center-of-mass separations
        with quadratic smoothing of the interaction energy to zero over the
        last 0.5 Å. The cutoff for alkenes and acetals was 13 Å, while for
        propanol, cyclohexane, 2-methyl-2-propanol, phenol, ethyl methyl
        sulfide, NMA, DMA, and NMP it was extended to 15 Å....."
        J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 11225-11236.


    That is an older version of OPLS.  See dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp003919d
    <http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp003919d>.  The cutoffs are much clearer.

    -Justin


        So does this cut off refer to coulombic interactions?
        is it correct if iI use the following parameters for OPLS-AA
        force field?

        
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
        ;NEIGHBOUR SEARCHING
        nstlist         = 10                    ; FREQUENCY WITH WHICH
        NEIGHBOURLIST IS UPDATED
        ns_type         = grid                  ; TYPE OF NEIGHBOUR
        SEARCH GRID OR SIMPLE
        pbc             = xyz                   ; DIRECTION OF PERIODIC
        BOUNDARY CONDITIONS USAGE
        rlist           = 1.4                  ; CUT-OFF DISTANCE FOR
        SHORT RANGE NEIGHBOUR LIST

        ;ELECTROSTATICS
        coulombtype     = PME                   ; METHOD FOR CALCULATING
        COULOMIC INTERCATION - PARTICLE MESH EWALD
        rcoulomb        = 1.4                  ; CUTOFF DISTANCE FOR
        ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS
        epsilon_r       = 1                     ; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC
        CONSTANT

        ;VAN DER WAALS
        vdwtype         = Switch                ; METHOD FOR TREATING
        VANDERWAAL'S FORCES
        rvdw_switch     = 0.9
        rvdw            = 1.00                  ; CUTOFF DISTANCE FOR LJ
        OR BUCKINGHAM INTERACTIONS
        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


        Thanks
        MKS


        On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
        <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>
        <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>>> wrote:



           Kavyashree M wrote:

               Sir,

                   Yes sir I am using PME. And one more thing I noticed was,
               the protein has
               7 disulphide bonds, so when I reduce all the cystine to
        cysteine
               or to alanine,
               the the sum of charge group radii reduces from 0.31..nm to
               0.30..nm and also the
               value of this is identical in case of alanine mutation or
               cysteine mutation.
                  I finalised on the value of rlist = rcolomb = 1.35nm so as
               not to take risk.
               is that fine?
           As I said before, read the OPLS paper.  1.35 nm does not
        sound right.

           -Justin

               Thank you
               M. Kavyashree


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                  Kavyashree M wrote:

                      Sir,

                          System is a protein with 123 aa. No modifications
               were made
                      on the pdb file,
                      and it was submitted to pdb2gmx by removing all
        HETATMs,
                      retaining only protein
                      atoms. topology was created entirely by pdb2gmx
        and no other
                      molecule was introduced.

                          I will go through the OPLSAA paper, but if I
        increase
               rlist
                      to 1.4nm without reducing
                      rvdw according to "The Origin of Layer Structure
        Artifacts in
                      Simulations of Liquid Water"
                      - JCTC, 2006, 2, 1-11, will it not cause
        orderedwater shell
                      during simultion?


                  You're using PME.  In the first paragraph of the
               introduction, it is
                  stated that the spurious effect does not occur with PME.

                  -Justin


                      Thanking you
                      M. Kavyashree


                      On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Justin A. Lemkul
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                         Kavyashree M wrote:

                             Sir,

                               What exactly can be wrong with the
        topology? As
               I tried
                      with


                         I don't know, what's in your system?  Was the
        topology
               created
                         entirely by pdb2gmx, or have you introduced
        some other
               molecules
                         that you've parameterized?


                             different PDBs of same structure at higher
        resolutions
                      too, I am
                             getting
                             almost similar charge group radii, so can
        you kindly
                      elaborate about
                             what can go wrong in the topology to get
        such values?


                         Large charge groups indicate that a fair number of
               atoms have
                      been
                         included in the same charge group.  Usually
        only two
               or three
                      atoms
                         are in a charge group, rendering them fairly
        small.  With
                      PME, the
                         effects may not be that large, i.e.
http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2010-November/056219.html,
                         but it's still worth investigating what your
        largest
               charge
                      group is
                         that's causing this problem.  If the topology
        is sound
               and is
                      based
                         entirely upon standard force field files, it may
               suffice to
                      simply
                         increase rlist to 1.4 nm, leaving all the other
               cutoffs at 1.0,
                         which I believe is standard for OPLS (but don't
        just
               take my word
                         for it).

                         -Justin


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