Partial charges / fractional charges
Dear Phenix bulletin board users, I would like to know if there is a way to introduce a partial or a fractional charge for a given atom in a structure subjected to a refinement with phenix.refine ? It is maybe totally useless to put a charge equal to -0.5 instead of -1 for an oxygen which is involved in a non-covalent binding with an ion but I didn't found any information about that... I thank you a lot in advance. Romain. -- ----- -------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Romain TALON Extremophile and Large Molecular Assemblies Team (E.L.M.A) Institut de Biologie Structurale 41, rue Jules Horowitz 38027 GRENOBLE Cedex 1 Tel: +33 (0)438.78.95.93 ----------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:19 +0100, Romain Talon wrote:
It is maybe totally useless to put a charge equal to -0.5 instead of -1 for an oxygen which is involved in a non-covalent binding with an ion but I didn't found any information about that...
It probably is useless as electrostatics is not included in the geometry term of the target function, afaiu. -- "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling." Julian, King of Lemurs
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From: Ed Pozharski
To: PHENIX user mailing list Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 6:21:08 AM Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Partial charges / fractional charges On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:19 +0100, Romain Talon wrote:
It is maybe totally useless to put a charge equal to -0.5 instead of -1 for an oxygen which is involved in a non-covalent binding with an ion but I didn't found any information about that...
It probably is useless as electrostatics is not included in the geometry term of the target function, afaiu.
Yes, that's true. Electrostatics are not used in phenix.refine since, based on experience that it is not useful in this context. Ralf
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Ed Pozharski
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Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
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Romain Talon