Kishore wrote:
Dear Justin,
I have used the same .mdp file you have used in your tutorial for
enzyme-ligand complex, I am pasting it here. My system consists of 10212
(enzyme+NADPH) atoms and 45000 water molecules.
Try using the Berendsen barostat instead of P-R. Some systems don't behave as
robustly and require a bit more gentle equilibration. The P-R barostat allows
for much wider fluctuations in pressure in such cases that lead to instability.
Otherwise, you have to do a thorough analysis of the origin of the problem.
Does your protein run alone? What about the NADPH cofactor? If one or both of
these fails under the same conditions, you have a problem with your topology
that is causing the instability.
-Justin
title = Protein-ligand complex NPT equilibration
define = -DPOSRES ; position restrain the protein and ligand
; Run parameters
integrator = md ; leap-frog integrator
nsteps = 50000 ; 2 * 50000 = 100 ps
dt = 0.002 ; 2 fs
; Output control
nstxout = 100 ; save coordinates every 0.2 ps
nstvout = 100 ; save velocities every 0.2 ps
nstenergy = 100 ; save energies every 0.2 ps
nstlog = 100 ; update log file every 0.2 ps
energygrps = Protein NDPH
; Bond parameters
continuation = yes ; first dynamics run
constraint_algorithm = lincs ; holonomic constraints
constraints = all-bonds ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds)
constrained
lincs_iter = 1 ; accuracy of LINCS
lincs_order = 4 ; also related to accuracy
; Neighborsearching
ns_type = grid ; search neighboring grid cells
nstlist = 5 ; 10 fs
rlist = 0.9 ; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
rcoulomb = 0.9 ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
rvdw = 1.4 ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
; Electrostatics
coulombtype = PME ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range
electrostatics
pme_order = 4 ; cubic interpolation
fourierspacing = 0.16 ; grid spacing for FFT
; Temperature coupling is on
tcoupl = V-rescale ; modified Berendsen thermostat
tc-grps = Protein_NDPH SOL_NA+ ; two coupling groups - more accurate
tau_t = 0.1 0.1 ; time constant, in ps
ref_t = 300 300 ; reference temperature, one
for each group, in K
; Pressure coupling is off
pcoupl = Parrinello-Rahman ; pressure coupling is on
for NPT
pcoupltype = isotropic ; uniform scaling of box vectors
tau_p = 2.0 ; time constant, in ps
ref_p = 1.0 ; reference pressure, in bar
compressibility = 4.5e-5 ; isothermal compressibility
of water, bar^-1
; Periodic boundary conditions
pbc = xyz ; 3-D PBC
; Dispersion correction
DispCorr = EnerPres ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity generation
gen_vel = no ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
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KRISHNA KISHORE@IIT-MADRAS
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
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