AMBER Archive (2008)

Subject: Re: AMBER: calibration of constant pH simulations

From: Adrian Roitberg (roitberg_at_qtp.ufl.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 13:05:33 CDT

Lilian.
Not that I know off, but...

We are running tons of these simulations using exactly the setup you
mentioned (ff99SB/igb=5) using the default internal parameters for
constant pH as they came in amber.

We can reproduce the pKas for the reference compounds used for the
original parametrization to within 0.01 pKa units. This tells me that if
you try to reparametrize, you will spend a very large amount of time
(you must do full free energy perturbation, etc) for no real results.

This is not a completely unexpected result. After all, ff99SB is simply
a refit of the torsional potential on top of the ff99 set, using the
same charges. For the reference compounds (single ionizable aminoacids,
capped) the effect would be minuscule.

Cheers
a.

Lillian Chong wrote:
> Dear Amber Users,
>
> I have a question about the constant pH simulations approach in AMBER
> 9. I would like to use ff99SB along with the igb=5 GB model for these
> simulations. Has anyone calibrated the constant pH simulations
> approach for use with this force field and water model?
>
> If not, we would be happy to do it and make the parameters available.
>
> Best,
> Lillian
> 

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                            Dr. Adrian E. Roitberg
                              Associate Professor
               Quantum Theory Project and Department of Chemistry

University of Florida                         PHONE 352 392-6972
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