FlexAppeal
β2 adrenergic receptor with carazolol, in POPC (200 ps verification)
- Simulated
- 0.200ns
- Frames
- 20
- Final RMSD
- 1.26Å
mean of the last 10% of frames
- Radius of gyration
- 24.16Å
trajectory mean
- Hydrogen bonds
- 462
occupancy > 10%
- Helix content
- 77%
trajectory mean
- Throughput
- 45ns/day
OpenCL
- Wall time
- 0.1h
- Equilibrated
- 0.02ns
restrained, before production
- Settles after
- 0.0ns
stationary from the first frame, by pymbar.detect_equilibration
- Force field
- amber14-all.xml
- Platform
- OpenCL
- Structure
- 2rh1.pdb
Structure
The decimated trajectory, 20 frames of 5288 atoms. Press play, or scrub the frame slider: the plots below highlight the frame you are on.
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The binding site
| Pose | 100.0 | 33% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occupancy | 100.0 | 22% | |
| Interactions | 100.0 | 22% | |
| Energy -39.7 kcal/mol ± 3.0 | 66.1 | 17% | |
| Convergence | not measured here | — |
|
| Conformation | 48.5 | 6% |
Ligand pose
What this shows
Two fits of the same ligand. Against the pocket, the curve is the ligand moving in a receptor held still; against itself, it is the ligand changing shape. The shaded head is the equilibration that was measured and not scored.
Centroid drift
What this shows
Displacement of the ligand centroid from where it started. The dotted line at 5 Å is the drift beyond which DeepFlex caps a grade.
Pocket occupancy
What this shows
Receptor residues in contact with the ligand. The dotted line is a quarter of the contacts present at the start, which is the threshold for counting a frame as still bound.
Interaction occupancy
What this shows
Which contacts carried the pose, and for how much of the scored window. Typed from heavy-atom geometry, so these are polar, ionic and hydrophobic contacts rather than a full interaction fingerprint.
Contact barcode
What this shows
When each contact was present, busiest first. Gaps are the contact breaking and reforming.
Pose clusters
What this shows
How the scored window divides into distinct poses. One tall bar near zero is a ligand that held its pose.
Ligand strain
What this shows
MMFF94 strain in excess of the starting pose, never the absolute energy. Below zero means the ligand relaxed out of the pose it started in, which is a good outcome rather than a neutral one.
Ligand torsions
What this shows
Each rotatable torsion over the run. Flat traces are a rigid ligand; a trace jumping between bands is a rotamer flip.
Ligand atom fluctuation
What this shows
Which part of the ligand moves, about its own mean position.
Receptor flexibility
What this shows
Per-residue backbone fluctuation, with the binding-site residues marked. A mobile pocket makes every pose measurement noisier.
Frame-to-frame RMSD
What this shows
Every frame against every other. Blocks along the diagonal are distinct states; a uniform field is a run that stayed in one.
Residue cross-correlation
What this shows
Which parts of the receptor move together. Blue is correlated, red is anticorrelated.
MM/GBSA, term by term
What this shows
Where the binding energy comes from. The bars are the difference block, complex minus receptor minus ligand, which is the only part of an MM/GBSA calculation that is a binding quantity. Error bars are the standard deviation over the sampled frames, not the standard error. igb=2, single trajectory, no entropy term: good for ranking ligands against each other, not an affinity.
The whole system
RMSD
What this shows
How far the structure has moved from its reference. A plateau means the trajectory has settled; a steady climb means it has not.
Radius of gyration
What this shows
Global compactness. A rise suggests unfolding or expansion.
Per-residue fluctuation
What this shows
Which parts of the molecule move. Peaks are usually loops and termini.
Solvent exposure
What this shows
Total solvent-accessible surface area over time.
Secondary structure content
What this shows
Helix and sheet content over the trajectory.
Secondary structure timeline
What this shows
Per-residue assignment at every frame. Vertical stripes are transient melting; horizontal bands are stable elements.
Contact map
What this shows
How often each residue pair is in contact across the whole trajectory.
Essential dynamics
What this shows
The two dominant collective motions, with each frame coloured by time. Distinct clouds mean distinct conformational states.
Conformational clusters
What this shows
Representative states found by RMSD clustering.
Ligand pose stability
What this shows
How far the ligand moves within the binding site, with the protein held fixed. A flat trace means the pose held; a jump means it moved or left.
Protein-ligand contacts
What this shows
Which residues the ligand touches, and for what fraction of the run.
Area per lipid
What this shows
The standard bilayer equilibration diagnostic: it should fall and then plateau. POPC sits near 0.63 nm² at 310 K. Two caveats on the absolute value: the protein's own cross-section is counted as membrane area, which inflates it for a large complex, and a freshly built bilayer starts loose and needs nanoseconds to condense.
Lipid chain order
What this shows
Order parameters down the acyl chain. A plateau near the headgroup falling away toward the tail is what a fluid bilayer looks like.
Bilayer thickness
What this shows
Phosphate-to-phosphate distance across the bilayer.
Convergence
What this shows
Each measure on its own axis. Energies, temperature and density differ by orders of magnitude, so sharing a plot between any two of them would make their alignment arbitrary and any apparent correlation fictional.
Reference states
The same trajectory measured against the experimental structures of this same protein in both of its known states, motif by motif, rather than against itself. Every threshold below is either published and cited or refitted and reported as refitted, and every reference structure was resolved from KLIFS or GPCRdb at run time.
State score over time
What this shows
The whole protein as one number, against the experimental active and inactive structures of this same protein: +1 is the active references, -1 the inactive ones. The thin line is per frame and the bold one is smoothed. The shaded bands start at s = ±0.2, which is where a label is decided; inside them the protein reads as intermediate.
Motif timelines
What this shows
Each structural motif scored separately, in the colours section 6.1 fixes for them. The whole-protein score above is these weighted by residue count, which is why a small motif moving a long way can leave it almost unchanged. Motifs of unequal discriminating power carry equal residue weight, so read this panel rather than the headline number.
Motifs at the end of the run
| Motif | Residues | To active (Å) | To inactive (Å) | s | First half to second | Label | Secondary structure leans | Nearest active / inactive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H8 | 11, 329 to 339 | 0.81 | 0.51 | -0.225 | -0.215 to -0.164 | inactive | 9LW5 / 5D5A | |
| NPxxY | 5, 322 to 326 | 3.13 | 0.75 | -0.616 | -0.653 to -0.588 | inactive | 8GG8 / 3PDS | |
| TM5 | 35, 196 to 230 | 1.52 | 0.96 | -0.229 | -0.172 to -0.210 | inactive | 9U9V / 3PDS | |
| TM6 | 31, 269 to 299 | 4.65 | 1.54 | -0.503 | -0.602 to -0.546 | inactive | 8GE5 / 3PDS | |
| TM7 | 25, 304 to 328 | 2.61 | 1.34 | -0.323 | -0.372 to -0.311 | inactive | active | 7DHI / 6PS4 |
What this shows
The last frame, motif by motif, with the distances the score is computed from and the nearest reference structure in each ensemble.
At 0.2 ns, the last frame analysed. A label is decided beyond s = ±0.2; inside that the motif reads as intermediate, which is a measurement and not a missing answer. The two half means say whether a motif was still moving: one number at the end cannot distinguish a motif that settled from one that was on its way somewhere. The last column is left blank where too few residues distinguish the reference sets to read a state from their secondary structure.
Secondary structure, motifs and the reference consensus
What this shows
Secondary structure per residue per frame, with each motif marked down the left edge and the reference ensembles' own consensus in the two columns on the right. A motif whose secondary structure matches the inactive references and not the active ones is the clearest evidence this analysis produces, and it is visible along a row.
Reference state map
What this shows
The reference structures on the plane their published criterion is drawn on, coloured by what the catalogue calls them, with this run's path across it in dark grey. This is the panel where a threshold that does not separate the clusters is obvious rather than argued about.
Superposition core
| Core defined by | generic 38 to 58 of TM1, TM2, TM3, TM4 |
|---|---|
| Alignment target | 8GFX |
| References aligned | 61 |
| References dropped | 0 |
| Mean core RMSD | 0.62 Å |
| Worst core RMSD | 1.07 Å |
| Rigidity reference | 2RH1 |
| Mean rigidity RMSD | 0.73 Å |
| Worst rigidity RMSD | 1.368 Å (3SN6) |
What this shows
What every distance on this page was measured after superposing on, and how well the reference structures agree about it.
The core is the part of the fold that does not move between states, so superposing on it leaves the motifs free to.
Reference structures
| PDB | Chain | Resolution (Å) | GPCRdb state | Our state | TM3-TM6 (Å) | Agreement | In the ensemble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2RH1 | A | 2.40 | inactive | 8.40 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3D4S | A | 2.80 | inactive | 8.15 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3NY8 | A | 2.84 | inactive | 8.30 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3NY9 | A | 2.84 | inactive | 8.29 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3NYA | A | 3.16 | inactive | 8.23 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3PDS | A | 3.50 | inactive | 8.27 | no opinion | not used | |
| 3SN6 | R | 3.20 | active | 15.41 | no opinion | not used | |
| 5D5A | A | 2.48 | inactive | 8.35 | no opinion | not used | |
| 5D6L | A | 3.20 | inactive | 8.43 | no opinion | not used | |
| 5X7D | A | 2.70 | inactive | 8.34 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6OBA | A | 3.10 | inactive | 8.06 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PRZ | A | 2.80 | inactive | 8.04 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS0 | A | 3.40 | inactive | 8.18 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS1 | A | 3.20 | inactive | 8.22 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS2 | A | 2.40 | inactive | 8.01 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS3 | A | 2.50 | inactive | 8.22 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS4 | A | 2.60 | inactive | 8.12 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS5 | A | 2.90 | inactive | 8.27 | no opinion | not used | |
| 6PS6 | A | 2.70 | inactive | 8.14 | no opinion | not used | |
| 7DHI | R | 3.26 | active | 15.52 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GE2 | R | 3.30 | active | 15.74 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GE3 | R | 3.30 | active | 15.77 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GE4 | R | 3.30 | active | 15.65 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GE5 | R | 3.20 | active | 15.55 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GFV | R | 3.10 | active | 15.85 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GFW | R | 3.00 | active | 15.83 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GFX | R | 3.00 | active | 15.89 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GFY | R | 3.00 | active | 15.74 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GFZ | R | 3.00 | active | 15.74 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG0 | R | 2.90 | active | 15.71 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG1 | R | 3.00 | active | 15.74 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG2 | R | 3.00 | active | 15.84 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG3 | R | 3.10 | active | 15.79 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG4 | R | 3.20 | active | 15.84 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG5 | R | 3.20 | active | 15.89 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG6 | R | 3.30 | active | 15.89 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG7 | R | 3.30 | active | 15.92 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8GG8 | R | 3.30 | active | 16.30 | no opinion | not used | |
| 8W1V | A | 3.00 | inactive | 8.12 | no opinion | not used | |
| 9L8L | R | 3.22 | active | 15.97 | no opinion | not used | |
| 9RKG | A | 2.45 | inactive | 8.39 | no opinion | not used | |
| 9RKI | A | 2.60 | inactive | 8.48 | no opinion | not used | |
| 9W3F | A | 3.04 | inactive | 8.36 | no opinion | not used |
What this shows
The ensemble this run was scored against, and whether our spatial label agrees with the annotation each structure came with. Counted, that agreement is the positive control for the whole method: if the labels did not reproduce the catalogue on structures whose state is known, nothing this page says about a trajectory would mean anything.
43 structures, resolved at run time from the catalogue rather than listed in the code. P3: the threshold on the TM3-TM6 distance, fitted on this set under leave-one-out, reproduces GPCRdb's own state call on 0 of 0 structures. No structure helped decide the line it is judged by. A structure reads "not used" when it has no usable state label or the alignment dropped it; the core panel says how many that was.