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<div style="">Hi,<br>
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When I tried to pack different proteins around the lipids (this protein I put it in the position which was nearly going to jump out of the lipids, so it's not exactly inserted into it, just very shallow into it), I used the vmd to see the system.gro, which
without being inflated first, I noticed <br>
some warnings like this:<br>
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Warning) Unusual bond between residues: 40 (protein) and 491 (none)<br>
Warning) Unusual bond between residues: 40 (protein) and 491 (none)<br>
Warning) Unusual bond between residues: 40 (protein) and 491 (none)<br>
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when I removed those residues such as 491 (none), not protein ones, those warning disappeared.
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I noticed on Justine's tutorial, there were 26 iterations of scaling down. I did those iterations step by step manually before and cost me nearly 40 mind-not-running minutes to finish, but later I spent crazy 2 hours or more to write a short and clumsy script
to save mine 40 mins work in the future. This is not the point. The point was that, are there some shortcuts? I wonder whether I could avoid doing those inflategro first, and then shrink and energy minimization also being avoided by simply removed those lipids
(I know I still need a final EM).<br>
or,<br>
Can we locally inflated those membrane and then locally packed them together. Very local, or maybe just simply removed those lipids.
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How could I make sure the removal ones are going to be nice, from which sides I should check.<br>
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Thanks and best regards,<br>
<br>
lina<br>
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p.s To avoid a very trivial description, I put some background information below, thanks for your time.<br>
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from Tieleman's website <br>
http://moose.bio.ucalgary.ca/index.php?page=Translate_lipdis<br>
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and Justine's webpage <br>
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin/gmx-tutorials/membrane_protein/03_solvate.html<br>
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I tried pack the lipids around the protein, no doubt followed perfectly based on the tutorial before.
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