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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Aided Mol Des. 2011 Nov 16;25(11):1071–1084. doi: 10.1007/s10822-011-9484-3

Table 2.

Calculated protein-ligand binding free energies and their componentsa,b

Ligand TΔSc ΔH (PB)d ΔH (QM)e ΔG (PB)f ΔG (SIE)g ΔG (QM)h ΔG (Exp)
T1 −9.0 (0.2) −40.7 (0.2) −15.9 (0.2) −31.7 (0.3) −7.8 (0.01) −6.9 (0.3) −7.5 (0.2)
T2 −9.5 (0.4) −38.0 (0.3) −12.6 (0.2) −28.4 (0.5) −7.3 (0.02) −3.1 (0.5) −6.7 (0.3)
T3 −10.1 (0.2) −37.2 (0.2) −13.7 (0.2) −27.0 (0.3) −7.4 (0.01) −3.6 (0.3) −5.9 (0.2)
T4 no binding
T5 −8.8 (0.4) −36.4 (0.2) −16.5 (0.2) −27.6 (0.4) −7.5 (0.01) −7.7 (0.5) −7.8 (0.1)
P7 −12.9 (0.2) −47.8 (0.2) −17.3 (0.3) −34.9 (0.2) −8.7 (0.01) −4.4 (0.3) −7.8 (0.1)
PIi n/a n/a n/a 0.71 0.78 0.78 n/a
a

Values of energies in kcal/mol

b

The values in brackets represent the error of the mean.

c

Entropic contribution calculated according to eq 4.

d

Enthalpic part from MM/PB-SA calculation including internal and solvation free energy.

e

Enthalpic part from MM-QMSA calculation including internal energy and solvation free energy.

f

Binding free energy from MM/PB-SA calculation (eq 1)

g

Binding free energy from SIE calculation (eq 8)

h

Binding free energy from MM-QMSA calculation (eq 9).

i

Pearlman’s predictive index.