Dear Xuewu,

Not easily, I’m afraid. In theory heparin *could* be handled by the GLYCAM force field ISOLDE uses for glycosylation sites, but its template scheme is entirely different from the residue representation in the PDB - in GLYCAM, each sulfate and the reducing-terminal hydroxyl are treated as extra residues tacked on to the sugars. Would take a bit of careful special-purpose code to support.

If your heparin chain is reasonably short, you might get reasonable results by treating it as a single large residue and parameterising with the “isolde param” command.

All the best,
Tristan 

On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 at 01:22, Xuewu Zhang via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear Tristan,
Can ISOLDE handle heparin molecules now? I tried to simulate a heparin chain, it says one residue is not properly parametrized. I am using ISOLDE in Chimerax 1.6.
Thanks,
Xuewu
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