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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Proteins. 2010 May 15;78(7):1705–1723. doi: 10.1002/prot.22687

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The thermodynamics cycle that describes the binding of a ligand to a protein. ℓ and ℓ′ represents the charged and uncharged forms of the ligand, respectively, while ℓ″ represents the ligand being reduced to “nothing”. For more details on this cycle, see ref11.