GROMACS Introductory Tutorial - University of （GROMACS入门教程,大学）.pdf

GROMACS Tutorial GROMACS Introductory Tutorial Gromacs ver 3.3.1 Author: John E. Kerrigan, Ph.D. AST/IST, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ 675 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08554 Phone: (732) 235-4473 Fax: (732) 235-5252 Email: kerrigje@ 1 GROMACS Tutorial GROMACS Tutorial for Solvation Study of Spider Toxin Peptide. Yu, H., Rosen, M. K., Saccomano, N. A., Phillips, D., Volkmann, R. A., Schreiber, S. L.: Sequential assignment and structure determination of spider toxin omega-Aga-IVB. Biochemistry 32 pp. 13123 (1993) GROMACS is a high-end, high performance research tool designed for the study of protein dynamics using classical molecular dynamics theory. [1] This versatile software package is Gnu public license free software. You may download it from . GROMACS runs on linux, unix, and on Windows (a recent development). Synopsis. In this tutorial, you will study a toxin isolated from the venom of the funnel web spider. Venom toxins have been used in the past to identify cation channels. Calcium ion channels regulate the entry of this ion into cells. Nerve signals are highly governed by the balance of ions in neuronal cells. It is hypothesized that exposed positively charged residues in venoms like the spider toxin here bind favorably to the negatively charged entrance of the cell’s ion channel. The spider toxin in this tutorial has its positively charged residues pointing predominantly to one side of the peptide. The ion channel is blocked, resulting in blocked nerve signal leading to paralysis and ultimately to death (presumably via respiratory failure). We will study this peptide toxin using explicit solvation dynamics. First, we will compare an in vacuo model to a solvated mod