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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2015 Oct 28;17(43):29262–29270. doi: 10.1039/c5cp04668h

Table 4.

Binding energies (kcal/mol) of tetramethylammonium to protein aromatic boxes.a

AChBP Histone binding Protein
Aromatic Box 28.9 Aromatic Box 32.3
Predictedb 67.7 Predictedb 42.7
TrpB 8.3 Trp50 13.9
TyrC2 8.0 Trp47 12.0
TyrC1 7.5 Tyr26 9.0
TrpD 4.8
TyrA 2.3

Sum 30.9 Sum 34.9
a

M06/6-31G(d,p) calculations; single-point energies.

b

Binding energy if all interactions were optimal and independent.