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ArticleScientific reports2023

MDTOMO method for continuous conformational variability analysis in cryo electron subtomograms based on molecular dynamics simulations.

Rémi Vuillemot, Isabelle Rouiller, Slavica Jonić

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Rémi VuillemotIMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CC 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France.
Isabelle RouillerDepartment of Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.
Slavica JonićIMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CC 115, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France. slavica.jonic@upmc.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-5112-2743

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Abstract

Cryo electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows observing macromolecular complexes in their native environment. The common routine of subtomogram averaging (STA) allows obtaining the three-dimensional (3D) structure of abundant macromolecular complexes, and can be coupled with discrete classification to reveal conformational heterogeneity of the sample. However, the number of complexes extracted from cryo-ET data is usually small, which restricts the discrete-classification results to a small number of enough populated states and, thus, results in a largely incomplete conformational landscape. Alternative approaches are currently being investigated to explore the continuity of the conformational landscapes that in situ cryo-ET studies could provide. In this article, we present MDTOMO, a method for analyzing continuous conformational variability in cryo-ET subtomograms based on Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. MDTOMO allows obtaining an atomic-scale model of conformational variability and the corresponding free-energy landscape, from a given set of cryo-ET subtomograms. The article presents the performance of MDTOMO on a synthetic ABC exporter dataset and an in situ SARS-CoV-2 spike dataset. MDTOMO allows analyzing dynamic properties of molecular complexes to understand their biological functions, which could also be useful for structure-based drug discovery.

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