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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

MDFF_NM: Improved Molecular Dynamics Flexible Fitting into Cryo-EM Density Maps with a Multireplica Normal Mode-Based Search.

Zakaria L Dahmani, Ana Ligia Scott, Catherine Vénien-Bryan, David Perahia, Mauricio G S Costa

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Zakaria L DahmaniSchool of Medicine, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, 800 Murdoch I Bldg, 3420 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.
Ana Ligia ScottCMCC, Computational Biophysics and Biology, Universidade Federal do ABC, Avenida dos Estados 5001, São Paulo, Santo André 09210-580, Brazil.
Catherine Vénien-BryanUMR 7590, CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, Paris 75005, France.
David PerahiaLaboratoire de Biologie et Pharmacologie Appliquée, UMR 8113, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France.
Mauricio G S CostaUMR 7590, CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, Paris 75005, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5443-286X

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Abstract

Molecular Dynamics Flexible Fitting (MDFF) is a widely used tool to refine high-resolution structures into cryo-EM density maps. Despite many successful applications, MDFF is still limited by its high computational cost, overfitting, accuracy, and performance issues due to entrapment within wrong local minima. Modern ensemble-based MDFF tools have generated promising results in the past decade. In line with these studies, we present MDFF_NM, a stochastic hybrid flexible fitting algorithm combining Normal Mode Analysis (NMA) and simulation-based flexible fitting. Initial tests reveal that, besides accelerating the fitting process, MDFF_NM increases the diversity of fitting routes leading to the target, uncovering ensembles of conformations in closer agreement with experimental data. The potential integration of MDFF_NM with other existing methods and integrative modeling pipelines is also discussed.

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AlgorithmsCryoelectron MicroscopyMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein Conformation

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