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. 2021 Mar 15;17(4):2530–2540. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01281

Table 1. Optimized Force Field Parameters for Mg2+ for Simulations with the TIP3P Water Modela.

    microMg nanoMg
σii [nm] 0.1019 0.1025
εii [kJ/mol] 235.80 389.80
σio [nm] 0.2085 0.2088
εio [kJ/mol] 12.250 15.750
λσCl   1.8000 1.8000
λεCl   0.1000 0.1000
σMgCl [nm] 0.4878 0.4884
εMgCl [kJ/mol] 0.8181 1.0518
λσRNA   1.1375 1.1435
λεRNA   0.3200 0.2500
σMgOP [nm] 0.2262 0.2277
εMgOP [kJ/mol] 4.6061 4.6266
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σii, εii, σio, and εio are the ion–ion and ion–water LJ parameters. λσX and λε are the scaling factors for the Lorentz–Berthelot combination rules (eq 3) for the interaction with Cl or the RNA atoms, shown exemplary for the interaction between Mg2+ and OP. Note that the scaling factors are only valid in combination with the Cl parameters from ref (20) and the parmBSC0χOL3 RNA parameters.5052