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This PDB is not properly neutralized

Open leeping opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

I think the charge on this protein is -15, but PDBFixer only adds 9 positive ions.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6sv73mglmu966f/3chy_native.pdb

I replaced the nonstandard amino acid with CYS, deleted all heterogens and used a pH of 7.0 . I chose ionic strengths of zero and 50 mM, and in both cases it added a total of +9 charge.

leeping avatar Jul 16 '14 02:07 leeping

I think it has something to do with the initial molecular geometry. After I minimized the (incorrectly charged) protein and ran it through PDBFixer again, it correctly added 15 positive ions.

leeping avatar Jul 16 '14 02:07 leeping

We should still add a check where an Exception is raised if the system was requested to be net neutral and doesn't end up that way....

jchodera avatar Jul 16 '14 02:07 jchodera