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ArticleNature biotechnology2025

All-atom RNA structure determination from cryo-EM maps.

Tao Li, Jiahua He, Hong Cao, Yi Zhang, Ji Chen, Yi Xiao, Sheng-You Huang

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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Tao LiSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Jiahua HeSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9075-4978
Hong CaoSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yi ZhangSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Ji ChenSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yi XiaoSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. yxiao@hust.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8652-3651
Sheng-You HuangSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. huangsy@hust.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4209-4565

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China 115489National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China 32071247National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China 62072199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many methods exist for determining protein structures from cryogenic electron microscopy maps, but this remains challenging for RNA structures. Here we developed EMRNA, a method for accurate, automated determination of full-length all-atom RNA structures from cryogenic electron microscopy maps. EMRNA integrates deep learning-based detection of nucleotides, three-dimensional backbone tracing and scoring with consideration of sequence and secondary structure information, and full-atom construction of the RNA structure. We validated EMRNA on 140 diverse RNA maps ranging from 37 to 423 nt at 2.0-6.0 Å resolutions, and compared EMRNA with auto-DRRAFTER, phenix.map_to_model and CryoREAD on a set of 71 cases. EMRNA achieves a median accuracy of 2.36 Å root mean square deviation and 0.86 TM-score for full-length RNA structures, compared with 6.66 Å and 0.58 for auto-DRRAFTER. EMRNA also obtains a high residue coverage and sequence match of 93.30% and 95.30% in the built models, compared with 58.20% and 42.20% for phenix.map_to_model and 56.45% and 52.3% for CryoREAD. EMRNA is fast and can build an RNA structure of 100 nt within 3 min.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyNucleic Acid ConformationRNADeep LearningModels, MolecularRNA

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