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ArticleNature communications2024

Automated detection and de novo structure modeling of nucleic acids from cryo-EM maps.

Tao Li, Hong Cao, Jiahua He, Sheng-You Huang

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  3. EMProt improves structure determination from cryo-EM maps.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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  5. AI meets RNA: revolutionizing structure prediction.Science China. Life sciences · 2025
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Tao LiSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Hong CaoSchool 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 0000-0002-9075-4978
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 0000-0002-4209-4565

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32161133002National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62072199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is one of the most powerful experimental methods for macromolecular structure determination. However, accurate DNA/RNA structure modeling from cryo-EM maps is still challenging especially for protein-DNA/RNA or multi-chain DNA/RNA complexes. Here we propose a deep learning-based method for accurate de novo structure determination of DNA/RNA from cryo-EM maps at  <5 Å resolutions, which is referred to as EM2NA. EM2NA is extensively evaluated on a diverse test set of 50 experimental maps at 2.0-5.0 Å resolutions, and compared with state-of-the-art methods including CryoREAD, ModelAngelo, and phenix.map_to_model. On average, EM2NA achieves a residue coverage of 83.15%, C4' RMSD of 1.06 Å, and sequence recall of 46.86%, which outperforms the existing methods. Moreover, EM2NA is applied to build the DNA/RNA structures with 10 to 5347 nt from an EMDB-wide data set of 263 unmodeled raw maps, demonstrating its ability in the blind model building of DNA/RNA from cryo-EM maps. EM2NA is fast and can normally build a DNA/RNA structure of  <500 nt within 10 minutes.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyDNAModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationRNADeep LearningDNARNA

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