Distribution
of RMSDs to a ligand-bound reference structure as
the concentration of the ligand is varied. Panels A and B represent
the titrations for benzene and toluene, respectively. The Y axis is
ligand concentration, and the X axis is the pocket-aligned symmetry
corrected35 Ligand RMSD to holo crystal
structure, histogrammed as before (Figure 4) . Each row in each heatmap is from the
same raw data being histogrammed with different weights, computed
by plugging the Y-value matching that row into eq 5. The orange line on each replica plot shows
the KD as calculated
for that replica using eq 1 for reference. The heat, or intensity, is in logscale to aid visualization.
The top row in each heatmap is holo-like, because it is at high ligand
concentration, and the bottom row is apolike, because it is at low
ligand concentration. Being able to titrate observables measurable
from conformations in this way could provide exciting opportunities
to understand ligand efficacy in systems with allosteric behavior.