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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

DeepTracer for fast de novo cryo-EM protein structure modeling and special studies on CoV-related complexes.

Jonas Pfab, Nhut Minh Phan, Dong Si

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.

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131 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Jonas PfabDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011.
Nhut Minh PhanDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011.ORCID 0000-0001-5298-4812
Dong SiDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011 dongsi@uw.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7039-2589

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information about macromolecular structure of protein complexes and related cellular and molecular mechanisms can assist the search for vaccines and drug development processes. To obtain such structural information, we present DeepTracer, a fully automated deep learning-based method for fast de novo multichain protein complex structure determination from high-resolution cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps. We applied DeepTracer on a previously published set of 476 raw experimental cryo-EM maps and compared the results with a current state of the art method. The residue coverage increased by over 30% using DeepTracer, and the rmsd value improved from 1.29 Å to 1.18 Å. Additionally, we applied DeepTracer on a set of 62 coronavirus-related cryo-EM maps, among them 10 with no deposited structure available in EMDataResource. We observed an average residue match of 84% with the deposited structures and an average rmsd of 0.93 Å. Additional tests with related methods further exemplify DeepTracer's competitive accuracy and efficiency of structure modeling. DeepTracer allows for exceptionally fast computations, making it possible to trace around 60,000 residues in 350 chains within only 2 h. The web service is globally accessible at https://deeptracer.uw.edu.

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Deep LearningModels, StructuralMolecular StructureCryoelectron MicroscopySARS-CoV-2Viral ProteinsViral Proteinscomplexcryo-EMde novomodelingstructure

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PMID33361332
PMCPMC7812826

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