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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2024

DomainFit: Identification of protein domains in cryo-EM maps at intermediate resolution using AlphaFold2-predicted models.

Jerry Gao, Maxwell Tong, Chinkyu Lee, Jacek Gaertig, Thibault Legal, Khanh Huy Bui

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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Jerry GaoDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada; Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada.
Maxwell TongDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada; Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada.
Chinkyu LeeDepartment of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-2607, GA, USA.
Jacek GaertigDepartment of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-2607, GA, USA.
Thibault LegalDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada; Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada. Electronic address: thibault.legal@mcgill.ca.
Khanh Huy BuiDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada; Centre de recherche en biologie structurale, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada. Electronic address: huy.bui@mcgill.ca.

Funding

Intracellular pattern formationR01GM135444 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI GAERTIG, JACEK · 2021 to 2024
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM135444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized the structural determination of macromolecular complexes. With the paradigm shift to structure determination of highly complex endogenous macromolecular complexes ex vivo and in situ structural biology, there are an increasing number of structures of native complexes. These complexes often contain unidentified proteins, related to different cellular states or processes. Identifying proteins at resolutions lower than 4 Å remains challenging because side chains cannot be visualized reliably. Here, we present DomainFit, a program for semi-automated domain-level protein identification from cryo-EM maps, particularly at resolutions lower than 4 Å. By fitting domains from AlphaFold2-predicted models into cryo-EM maps, the program performs statistical analyses and attempts to identify the domains and protein candidates forming the density. Using DomainFit, we identified two microtubule inner proteins, one of which contains a CCDC81 domain and is exclusively localized in the proximal region of the doublet microtubule in Tetrahymena thermophila.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularProtein DomainsMicrotubulesProtozoan ProteinsSoftwareTetrahymena thermophilaProtozoan ProteinsAlphaFold2 modelingciliacryo-EMcryo-ETdomain identificationdoubletmicrotubule inner proteinprotein identificationsubtomogram averaging

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PMCPMC11316655

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