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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Proteins. 2016 Aug 10;84(11):1616–1624. doi: 10.1002/prot.25104

Table 6.

Free energy contributions of the alchemical mutation in T7 RNA polymerasea

WT/H-bond Y639F with const Solution
Electrostatic
10.1 6.8 9.1
VDW 0.3 0.5 −3.0
a

Energies in kcal/mol. The results were obtained with a hydrogen bond constraint between O2′ and the hydroxyl group. In Y639F, a corresponding constraint was imposed to position the mutated phenylalanine at the constrained wild type.