Table 1.

Notations used for various structures in this study

Notation	Structure
MetRS	E. coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase
apo-MetRS(crystal)	Crystal structure of apo form of MetRS
apo-MetRS(FF)	Structure generated by minimizing apo-MetRS(crystal) using MPSim
met/apo-MetRS(HierDock)	Predicted structure of methionine in apo-MetRS(FF)
met/MetRS(crystal)	Cocrystal structure of E. coli MetRS with methionine
met/MetRS(FF)	Structure generated by minimizing met/MetRS(crystal) using MPSim
met/MetRS(HierDock)	Predicted structure of methionine in met/MetRS(FF)