Figure 3.
Intermolecular energy V(r) (in kcal/mol) between Ser–Ser (left) and Asp−–Arg+ (right) as a function of the shared proton-acceptor atom distance r. Energy calculated with the SCPISM [Eq.(19)] and the all-atom CHARMM van der Waals potential. Thick lines correspond to the optimized HB energy based on PMF calculations in explicit water69; thin lines illustrate the dependence of the HB energy with δA [Eq.(18)]. Vw(r) and φ(r) are the water-induced and the gas-phase intermolecular energies, respectively.