Figure 8.
(A) The thermodynamic cycle underlying Eq. (1). (B) The dual topology scheme used to interpolate the potential energy function between the Pro side-chain (green) and the Ala side-chain (blue). Common atoms are unaffected, Duplicated atoms change type and non-bonded parameters. Unique atoms vanish, with their non-bonded interactions switched to zero and their bonded interactions unchanged. (C) Derivatives of the free energy obtained for each λ-value in three independent runs for the bound complex. (D) Idem for the unbound complex.