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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Jan 20;48(2):399–414. doi: 10.1021/bi8017043

Table 3.

Free Energy Change Due to Mutation of Hot-Spot Residues at the Barnase–Barstar Interfacea

PDB type mutation 〈ΔGvdW 〈ΔGPBELE 〈ΔGSA TΔSNM 〈ΔGmut 〈ΔGwild 〈ΔGmut
1BRS native Tyr29 −86.8 ± 0.3 65.3 ± 0.9 −12.1 ± 0.03 −47.5 ± 1.1 13.9 ± 1.3 2.9 ± 1.4 11.0 ± 1.9
Asp35 −88.5 ± 0.3 66.9 ± 1.0 −11.9 ± 0.03 −45.8 ± 1.3 12.3 ± 1.5 9.4 ± 2.1
Asp39 −92.4 ± 0.3 90.4 ± 0.9 −12.1 ± 0.03 −46.5 ± 1.2 32.4 ± 1.4 29.5 ± 2.0
1BTA grafted Tyr29 −80.4 ± 0.5 45.4 ± 1.0 −11.8 ± 0.06 −44.4 ± 1.1 −2.5 ± 1.4 −8.4 ± 1.6 5.9 ± 2.1
Asp35 −83.0 ± 0.5 63.3 ± 1.1 −11.7 ± 0.05 −43.1 ± 1.1 11.7 ± 1.5 20.1 ± 2.2
Asp39 −86.8 ± 0.5 79.5 ± 0.8 −11.9 ± 0.06 −45.5 ± 1.0 26.3 ± 1.3 34.7 ± 2.1
1AIL grafted Tyr60 −58.7 ± 1.0 43.8 ± 0.9 −9.6 ± 0.14 −44.2 ± 1.2 19.8 ± 1.4 17.9 ± 1.3 1.9 ± 1.9
Asp51 −58.9 ± 0.9 48.3 ± 1.0 −9.7 ± 0.13 −44.2 ± 1.0 23.8 ± 1.3 5.9 ± 1.8
Asp53 −60.1 ± 1.0 65.1 ± 1.5 −9.9 ± 0.14 −44.0 ± 1.1 39.2 ± 1.4 21.3 ± 1.9
a

Units in kcal/mol; ΔGvdW, van der Waals potential energy; ΔGPBELE, electrostatic potential energy; ΔGSA, nonpolar contributions to solvation free energy; TΔSNM, the entropic contribution calculated with normal-mode analysis to the free energy of binding; ΔGmut, mutant binding free energy; ΔGwild, wild type binding free energy; ΔΔGmut, the change of mutant binding free energy as to wild type.