FAIRMol

TC354

Pose ID 298 Compound 230 Pose 298

DB SELECTIONDocking pose analysis is being read from this database.
Molecular metrics status: done
RDKit SASA-based burial metrics are cached.
SASA cached
T01
Human DHFR Human
Ligand TC354
PDB5SD8

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Strict H-bonds Permissive H-bonds
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Protein receptor
Pocket residues
Cofactor context
Docked ligand
Overall assessment
Reject SASA cached
Promising but geometrically suspicious
Binding strong Geometry low Native strong SASA done
Strain ΔE
60.8 kcal/mol
Protein clashes
0
Internal clashes
17
Native overlap
contact recall 0.67, Jaccard 0.61, H-bond role recall 0.00
Burial
78%
Hydrophobic fit
100%
Reason: 17 internal clashes, strain 60.8 kcal/mol
strain ΔE 60.8 kcal/mol 17 intramolecular clashes 35% of hydrophobic surface appears solvent-exposed (14/40 atoms). Partial exposure is common but may limit selectivity and membrane permeability.
Molecular report
Full metrics ↗
Reject Multiple quality flags — this pose should be deprioritised or discarded.
✓ Excellent LE (-0.524 kcal/mol/HA) ✓ Good fit quality (FQ -5.60) ✓ Deep burial (78% SASA buried) ✓ Lipophilic contacts well-matched (100%) ✗ Extreme strain energy (60.8 kcal/mol) ✗ Geometry warnings ✗ Many internal clashes (17)
Score
-23.060
kcal/mol
LE
-0.524
kcal/mol/HA
Fit Quality
-5.60
FQ (Leeson)
HAC
44
heavy atoms
MW
585
Da
LogP
7.63
cLogP
Strain ΔE
60.8 kcal/mol
SASA buried
78%
Lipo contact
100% BSA apolar/total
SASA unbound
902 Ų
Apolar buried
702 Ų

Interaction summary

HB 2 HY 24 PI 1 CLASH 0 ⚠ Exposure 35%

HB · H-bonds

Mode: strict. Count shows atom-level H-bonds; unique residues in summary: 0.

PI · π–π interactions

Native π–π recall is disabled because no explicit native π–π reference was stored.

HY · Hydrophobic contacts

CLASH · Clashes

No clash · clashes detected for this pose.
⚠️Partial hydrophobic solvent exposure
35% of hydrophobic surface appears solvent-exposed (14/40 atoms). Partial exposure is common but may limit selectivity and membrane permeability.
Non-polar atoms 40 Buried (contacted) 26 Exposed 14 LogP 7.63 H-bonds 2
Exposed fragments: phenyl (4/5 atoms exposed)phenyl (6/6 atoms exposed)aliphatic chain/group (6 atoms exposed)
Final rank1.598Score-23.060
Inter norm-0.635Intra norm0.111
Top1000noExcludedno
Contacts16H-bonds2
Artifact reasongeometry warning; 17 clashes; 1 protein contact clash; 1 cofactor-context clash; high strain Δ 54.1
Residues
ASN65 GLU31 ILE61 ILE8 LEU23 LEU28 NAP201 PHE32 PHE35 PRO27 PRO62 SER60 THR57 TYR122 VAL116 VAL9

Native ligand reference

★ reference
Interaction fingerprint calculated directly from the uploaded native ligand without docking. Current H-bond mode: strict.
Name5SD8Contacts21
PoseOpen native poseHB0
IFP residues
ALA10 ASN65 ASP22 GLN36 GLU31 GLY117 GLY21 ILE61 ILE8 LEU23 LEU68 NAP201 PHE32 PHE35 PRO62 SER60 THR137 THR57 TYR122 VAL116 VAL9
Current overlap14Native recall0.67
Jaccard0.61RMSD-
HB strict0Strict recall0.00
HB same residue+role0HB role recall0.00
HB same residue0HB residue recall0.00

Protein summary

200 residues
Protein targetT01Atoms3128
Residues200Chains2
Residue summaryLYS:374; LEU:361; GLU:240; VAL:224; ARG:192; PHE:180; ILE:171; PRO:168; ASN:140; SER:132; TYR:126; GLN:119; ASP:108; MET:102; THR:98; GLY:91

Receptor context

1 kept / 0 excluded
Receptor context filtering: interactions and SASA are computed against protein atoms plus allowed cofactors/ions. Native ligand-like HETATM partners are excluded from scoring.
Kept context 1 Excluded HETATM 0
Kept cofactors / ions
A:NAP201

All stored poses for this docking hit

PoseFinal rankInter normScoreHBCTCT overlapCT recallHB role rec.RMSDExcluded
298 1.5980247116679025 -0.634928 -23.0597 2 16 14 0.67 0.00 - no Current
278 1.754394841648101 -0.579766 -22.3914 2 18 16 0.76 0.00 - no Open
247 3.2222901339255166 -0.475706 -16.6641 3 16 0 0.00 0.00 - no Open
335 4.130698106402877 -0.539598 -22.034 3 17 0 0.00 0.00 - no Open

Molecular metrics

RDKit SASA burial, strain energy (MMFF94s), ligand efficiency and fit quality for this docking pose.
✓ Metrics available

Scoring & efficiency

Docking score -23.060kcal/mol
Ligand efficiency (LE) -0.5241kcal/mol/HA
Score / heavy atom count
Fit quality (FQ) -5.600
LE / (0.072 + 0.95/HAC) — Leeson & Springthorpe
Heavy atom count 44HA

Physicochemical properties

Molecular weight 584.9Da
Lipinski: ≤ 500 Da
LogP (cLogP) 7.63
Lipinski: ≤ 5
Rotatable bonds 8

Conformational strain (MMFF94s)

Strain energy (ΔE) 60.78kcal/mol
< 5 good · 5–10 marginal · > 10 problematic
Docked FF energy 185.97kcal/mol
Minimised FF energy 125.19kcal/mol

SASA & burial

✓ computed
SASA (unbound) 902.0Ų
Total solvent-accessible surface area of free ligand
BSA total 704.7Ų
Buried surface area upon binding
BSA apolar 701.6Ų
Hydrophobic contacts buried
BSA polar 3.0Ų
Polar contacts buried
Fraction buried 78.1%
> 60 % indicates good pocket engagement
Lipophilic contact ratio 99.6%
BSA apolar / BSA total — high = hydrophobic driver
Δ Non-polar SASA -1940.7Ų
SASA_nonpolar(complex) − SASA_nonpolar(receptor) − SASA_nonpolar(ligand free). Negative = non-polar surface buried upon binding. Requires full polarity-decomposed SASA computation.
Receptor non-polar SASA 1677.9Ų
Non-polar SASA of receptor alone (VdW proxy, nonpolar atoms only)
Complex non-polar SASA 635.3Ų
Non-polar SASA of full complex (VdW proxy, nonpolar atoms only)