Accounting Conformational Dynamics into Structural Modeling Reflected by Cryo-EM with Deep Learning.

Journal: Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
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Abstract

With the continuous development of structural biology, the requirement for accurate threedimensional structures during functional modulation of biological macromolecules is increasing. Therefore, determining the dynamic structures of bio-macromolecular at high resolution has been a highpriority task. With the development of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) techniques, the flexible structures of biomacromolecules at the atomic resolution level grow rapidly. Nevertheless, it is difficult for cryo-EM to produce high-resolution dynamic structures without a great deal of manpower and time. Fortunately, deep learning, belonging to the domain of artificial intelligence, speeds up and simplifies this workflow for handling the high-throughput cryo-EM data. Here, we generalized and summarized some software packages and referred algorithms of deep learning with remarkable effects on cryo-EM data processing, including Warp, user-free preprocessing routines, TranSPHIRE, PARSED, Topaz, crYOLO, and self-supervised workflow, and pointed out the strategies to improve the resolution and efficiency of three-dimensional reconstruction. We hope it will shed some light on the bio-macromolecular dynamic structure modeling with the deep learning algorithms.

Authors

  • Qiushi Ye
    MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
  • Yizhen Zhao
    Luoyang Orthopedic Traumatological Hospital of Henan Province, Luoyang, China.
  • Xuhua Li
    Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, College of Biomedical Information and Engineering, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China.
  • Yimin Zhao
    MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
  • Xinyue Fu
    MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
  • Shengli Zhang
    Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture & National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University Beijing, China.
  • Zhiwei Yang
  • Lei Zhang
    Division of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.