Figure 2:
RBFE results for PTP1B ligands:
Upper panels: simulations results with the original AMBER softcore potential parameter set and the linear combination of the softcore potentials, analyzed by TI (left panels) and MBAR (right panels).
Lower panels: simulations results with the proposed second order smoothstep function SSC(2) and the softcore potential parameter set (α=0.2, β=50 Å2), analyzed by TI (left panels) and MBAR (right panels). Plots show the the comparison between the stepwise scheme (x-axis) and the concerted scheme (y-axis). The dashed red lines indicate the region of ±1.0 kcal/mol difference. The calculated ∣ϵ∣’s are positive definite values and not normally distributed, hence their standard deviations (shown in parentheses) should not be interpretted as indicative of data range.