Table 2 Contact area of the plug domain with surrounding.

From: Analyzing protein topology based on Laguerre tessellation of a pore-traversing water network

contacts

ligand-free

complexed

difference

A2)

σ2)

A2)

σ2)

ΔA2)

ΔA/Ap

plug – β barrel

2597

57

2481

58

−116

−1.4%

plug – periphery

3175

68

2915

79

−260

−3.2%

plug – enterobactin

65

5

65

0.8%

plug – water

5100

105

5126

83

26

0.3%

total plug surface Ap

8275

93

8106

81

−169

−2.1%

  1. The contact area A is the area of interface, plug-(periphery/barrel/ligand/water), averaged over the last 10 ns; σ is the corresponding standard deviation. ΔA = Acomp − Afree is the difference between the complexed and ligand-free forms.