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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2024

Enhancing cryo-EM structure prediction with DeepTracer and AlphaFold2 integration.

Jason Chen, Ayisha Zia, Albert Luo, Hanze Meng, Fengbin Wang, Jie Hou, Renzhi Cao, Dong Si

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  1. Plant structural biology: Emerging technologies and future biological insights.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  5. Toward Modeling Protein Multimers by Combining AlphaFold 3 Predictions with Secondary Structures from Medium-Resolution Cryo-EM Maps.Computational structural bioinformatics : international workshop, CSBW 2024, Boston, MA, USA, November 16, 2024, proceedings. Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (2024 : Boston, Mass.) · 2025
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Jason ChenDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1552-4352
Ayisha ZiaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA.
Albert LuoDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011, USA.
Hanze MengDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Fengbin WangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA.
Jie HouDepartment of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63103, USA.
Renzhi CaoDepartment of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8345-343X
Dong SiDivision of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 98011, USA.

Funding

Understanding and using microbial conductive nanowiresR00GM138756 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WANG, FENGBIN · 2022 to 2024
$895k
NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM138756
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the protein structures is invaluable in various biomedical applications, such as vaccine development. Protein structure model building from experimental electron density maps is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. To address the challenge, machine learning approaches have been proposed to automate this process. Currently, the majority of the experimental maps in the database lack atomic resolution features, making it challenging for machine learning-based methods to precisely determine protein structures from cryogenic electron microscopy density maps. On the other hand, protein structure prediction methods, such as AlphaFold2, leverage evolutionary information from protein sequences and have recently achieved groundbreaking accuracy. However, these methods often require manual refinement, which is labor intensive and time consuming. In this study, we present DeepTracer-Refine, an automated method that refines AlphaFold predicted structures by aligning them to DeepTracers modeled structure. Our method was evaluated on 39 multi-domain proteins and we improved the average residue coverage from 78.2 to 90.0% and average local Distance Difference Test score from 0.67 to 0.71. We also compared DeepTracer-Refine with Phenixs AlphaFold refinement and demonstrated that our method not only performs better when the initial AlphaFold model is less precise but also surpasses Phenix in run-time performance.

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Biological EvolutionMachine LearningAmino Acid SequenceCryoelectron MicroscopyDatabases, FactualAlphaFoldcryo-EMDeepTracerprotein dockingprotein structurerefinement

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PMID38609330
PMCPMC11014792

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