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. 2014 Jun 23;13(14):2172–2191. doi: 10.4161/cc.29214

Table 5. Binding Energy of 2 inhibitors bound to 3 kinases.

Kinase PDB Kinase with Bosutinib Kinase with Bos-Isomer
Wee1 3BI6 390 448
Chk1 2HY0 449 574
Abl 3UE4 536 526*
Binding energy of inhibitors (kcal/mol)  

The binding energy as assessed by the program Yasara36 using the AMBER 2003 force field without long range electrostatics enabled and BindEnergy command. The BindEnergy command calculates the binding energy of the inhibitor with respect to the rest of the protein according to the current force field.37 The binding energy is obtained by calculating the energy at infinite distance (between the inhibitor and solvent, i.e., the unbound state) and subtracting the bound state. The more positive the binding energy, the more favorable the interaction in the context of the chosen force field. The starting coordinates for the 3 proteins were obtained from the listed PDB codes.