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. 2008 Sep 26;4(9):e1000188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000188

Table 4. Number of water molecules mediating interaction between residues with opposite or like charges across the interface.

Interface Type
Inter_H Inter_C
(a) Residues are of the opposite charges sc-sc 68 54
mc-mc 71 39
mc-sc 134 99
(b) Residues are of the same charge sc-sc 69 41
mc-mc 77 37
mc-sc 82 68

sc and mc correspond to the side chain and the main chain, respectively. All the possible pairs of hydrogen bond interactions are considered (so that a given water molecule can contribute to more than one category of interactions). As such the total number of cases under Inter_H and Inter_C (501 and 338) exceeds the number (334 and 217) given in Table 3.