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. 2009 Dec 16;97(12):3139–3149. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.09.035

Table 2.

Adaptation energy for the peptide and hairpin RNA including eight explicit interface water molecules

Energy N-peptide
boxB RNA
Bound Free Adaptation energy Bound Free Adaptation energy
BOND 460.1 (± 2) 456.0 (± 2) 4.1 (± 1) 757.8 (± 2) 763.2 (± 1) −5.9 (± 1)
VDW −49.5 (± 1) −24.1 (± 1) −25.4 (± 1) −118.2 (± 1) −123.8 (± 2) 5.7 (± 0.4)
ELE§ −22.3 (± 5) −418.2 (± 3) 395.9 (± 4) −535.4 (± 6) −664.2 (± 5) 128.8 (± 5)
SURNP 17.5 (± 0.1) 18.1 (± 0.01) −0.6 (± 0.1) 23.1 (± 0.01) 22.3 (± 0.03) 0.1 (± 0.01)
PB −1557.2 (± 6) −1171.5 (± 3) −385.7 (± 5) −3407.4 (± 9) −3289.8 (± 6) −117.6 (± 8)
GB∗∗ −1559.5 (± 6) −1174.0 (± 3) −385.4 (± 5) −3322.9 (± 4) −3202.7 (± 2) −120.1 (± 3)
ΔG††PB −1151.3 (± 3) −1139.6 (± 1) −11.7 (± 2) −3280.4 (± 1) −3291.6 (± 2) 11.2 (± 2)
ΔG††GB −1153.6 (± 3) −1142.2 (± 1) −11.4 (± 1) −3195.9 (± 1) −3204.6 (± 2) 8.7 (± 2)

MM/PBSA free energies are averages over the last 10 ns of the trajectories (2500 frames).

Adaptation energy (kcal/mol) is calculated by subtracting the energy of the free state from that of the bound state.

Bond, angle, dihedral energy.

van der Waals energy.

§

Electrostatic energy.

Contribution of the nonpolar surface area to the solvation free energy.

Electrostatic solvation free energy with the PB model.

∗∗

Electrostatic solvation free energy with the GB model.

††

Total energy, sum of all the above energy terms.