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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2021

Macromolecular refinement of X-ray and cryoelectron microscopy structures with Phenix/OPLS3e for improved structure and ligand quality.

Gydo C P van Zundert, Nigel W Moriarty, Oleg V Sobolev, Paul D Adams, Kenneth W Borrelli

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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5 authors.

Gydo C P van ZundertSchrödinger, New York, NY 10036, USA.
Nigel W MoriartyMolecular Biosciences and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Oleg V SobolevMolecular Biosciences and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Paul D AdamsMolecular Biosciences and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Kenneth W BorrelliSchrödinger, New York, NY 10036, USA. Electronic address: kenneth.borrelli@schrodinger.com.

Funding

PROJECT 5 - DUKE - STRUCTURE VALIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR PROTEINS AND N. ACIDSP01GM063210 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI ADAMS, PAUL DAVID · 2001 to 2021
$33.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM063210
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of the resolution revolution in cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM), low-resolution refinement is common, and likewise increases the need for a reliable force field. Here, we report on the incorporation of the OPLS3e force field with the VSGB2.1 solvation model in the structure determination package Phenix. Our results show significantly improved structure quality and reduced ligand strain at lower resolution for X-ray refinement. For refinement of cryo-EM-based structures, we find comparable quality structures, goodness-of-fit, and reduced ligand strain. We also show how structure quality and ligand strain are related to the map-model cross-correlation as a function of data weight, and how that can detect overfitting. Signs of overfitting are found in over half of our cryo-EM dataset, which can be remedied by a re-refinement at a lower data weight. Finally, a start-to-end script for refining structures with Phenix/OPLS3e is available in the Schrödinger 2020-3 distribution.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayLigandsMacromolecular SubstancesProteinsSoftwareLigandsMacromolecular SubstancesProteinscryoelectron microscopyforce fieldligand placementoverfittingreal-space refinementreciprocal space refinement

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PMID33823127
PMCPMC8349848

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