[gmx-users] Capping of peptide terminal ends

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Oct 14 14:12:23 CEST 2018



On 10/14/18 12:48 AM, Omkar Singh wrote:
>   Hi ,
> I did same as you suggest me,  but now new error is coming as shown below.
>   I just backed up topol.top to ./#topol.top.30#
> Processing chain 1 (64 atoms, 7 residues)
> Identified residue ACE0 as a starting terminus.
> Identified residue CT31 as a ending terminus.
> 8 out of 8 lines of specbond.dat converted successfully
> Select start terminus type for ACE-0
>   0: NH3+
>   1: NH2
>   2: None
> 2
> Start terminus ACE-0: None
> Select end terminus type for CT3-1
>   0: CT3
>   1: COO-
>   2: COOH
>   3: CT2
>   4: None
> 4
> End terminus CT3-1: None
> Opening force field file
> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.arn
> Opening force field file
> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/dna.arn
> Opening force field file
> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.arn
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program:     gmx pdb2gmx, version 2016.2
> Source file: src/gromacs/gmxpreprocess/pdb2gmx.cpp (line 753)
>
> Fatal error:
> Atom H31 in residue ACE 0 was not found in rtp entry ACE with 6 atoms
> while sorting atoms.
>
> For a hydrogen, this can be a different protonation state, or it
> might have had a different number in the PDB file and was rebuilt
> (it might for instance have been H3, and we only expected H1 & H2).
> Note that hydrogens might have been added to the entry for the N-terminus.
> Remove this hydrogen or choose a different protonation state to solve it.
> Option -ignh will ignore all hydrogens in the input.
>
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors

If you follow this link, you will find the exact solution to your problem.

-Justin

> terminal entries are as following
> N-terminal
> ATOM      3  CH3 ACE     0       8.735  -0.604   2.523  1.00  0.00
>   C
> ATOM     31  H31 ACE     0       9.608   0.044   2.605  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     32  H32 ACE     0       8.348  -0.783   3.526  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     33  H33 ACE     0       9.056  -1.553   2.095  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     2 C   ACE     1       7.677   0.041   1.642  1.00  0.00
>   C
> ATOM      4  O   ACE     1     7.890   1.122   1.099  1.00  0.00
>   O
> ................................................................................................................
> C- terminal
>
> ATOM     23  N   CT3     1      -5.561   0.819  -3.047  1.00  0.00
>   N
> ATOM     50  HN  CT3     1      -5.240   1.762  -2.900  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     24  CH3 CT3     1      -6.804   0.635  -3.787  1.00  0.00
>   C
> ATOM     51  H31 CT3     1      -7.250   1.599  -4.034  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     52  H32 CT3     1      -6.624   0.095  -4.718  1.00  0.00
>   H
> ATOM     53  H33 CT3     1      -7.527   0.065  -3.201  1.00  0.00
>   H
>   The spacing is fine in real pdb.
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 8:36 PM Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10/12/18 6:35 AM, Omkar Singh wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a peptide system with capinng, N-ACE and C-NAC. i would like to
>>> create a topology file .I tried with pdb2gmx script but it is showing a
>>> fatal error like as;
>>> Fatal error:
>>> atom N not found in buiding block 1ACE while combining tdb and rtp. I
>>> already tried by editing in .rtp entry but after that it is showing
>> error.
>>> I am using CHARMM27 ff/
>>> Select the Force Field:
>>>   From '/usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top':
>>>    1: AMBER03 protein, nucleic AMBER94 (Duan et al., J. Comp. Chem. 24,
>>> 1999-2012, 2003)
>>>    2: AMBER94 force field (Cornell et al., JACS 117, 5179-5197, 1995)
>>>    3: AMBER96 protein, nucleic AMBER94 (Kollman et al., Acc. Chem. Res.
>> 29,
>>> 461-469, 1996)
>>>    4: AMBER99 protein, nucleic AMBER94 (Wang et al., J. Comp. Chem. 21,
>>> 1049-1074, 2000)
>>>    5: AMBER99SB protein, nucleic AMBER94 (Hornak et al., Proteins 65,
>>> 712-725, 2006)
>>>    6: AMBER99SB-ILDN protein, nucleic AMBER94 (Lindorff-Larsen et al.,
>>> Proteins 78, 1950-58, 2010)
>>>    7: AMBERGS force field (Garcia & Sanbonmatsu, PNAS 99, 2782-2787, 2002)
>>>    8: CHARMM27 all-atom force field (CHARM22 plus CMAP for proteins)
>>>    9: CHARMM36 all-atom force field (March 2017)
>>> 10: GROMOS96 43a1 force field
>>> 11: GROMOS96 43a2 force field (improved alkane dihedrals)
>>> 12: GROMOS96 45a3 force field (Schuler JCC 2001 22 1205)
>>> 13: GROMOS96 53a5 force field (JCC 2004 vol 25 pag 1656)
>>> 14: GROMOS96 53a6 force field (JCC 2004 vol 25 pag 1656)
>>> 15: GROMOS96 54a7 force field (Eur. Biophys. J. (2011), 40,, 843-856,
>> DOI:
>>> 10.1007/s00249-011-0700-9)
>>> 16: OPLS-AA/L all-atom force field (2001 aminoacid dihedrals)
>>> 8
>>>
>>> Using the Charmm27 force field in directory charmm27.ff
>>>
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.r2b
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.r2b
>>> Reading a3k1.pdb...
>>> Read 'Structure1', 64 atoms
>>> Analyzing pdb file
>>> Splitting chemical chains based on TER records or chain id changing.
>>> There are 1 chains and 0 blocks of water and 6 residues with 64 atoms
>>>
>>>     chain  #res #atoms
>>>     1 ' '     6     64
>>>
>>> All occupancies are one
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/atomtypes.atp
>>> Atomtype 213
>>> Reading residue database... (charmm27)
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.rtp
>>> Residue 44
>>> Sorting it all out...
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/dna.rtp
>>> Residue 48
>>> Sorting it all out...
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/lipids.rtp
>>> Residue 60
>>> Sorting it all out...
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.rtp
>>> Residue 64
>>> Sorting it all out...
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.hdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/dna.hdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/lipids.hdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.hdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.n.tdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/dna.n.tdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.n.tdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/aminoacids.c.tdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/dna.c.tdb
>>> Opening force field file
>>> /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top/charmm27.ff/rna.c.tdb
>>>
>>> Back Off! I just backed up topol.top to ./#topol.top.8#
>>> Processing chain 1 (64 atoms, 6 residues)
>>> Identified residue ACE1 as a starting terminus.
>>> Identified residue CT35 as a ending terminus.
>>> 8 out of 8 lines of specbond.dat converted successfully
>>> Start terminus ACE-1: NH3+
>>> End terminus CT3-5: CT3
>> You need to specify "None" for both termini, otherwise pdb2gmx tries to
>> patch them as normal amino acids. The ACE and CT3 need to be present in
>> the input coordinate file as separate residues, appropriately named.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
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