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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2025

Automated model-free analysis of cryo-EM volume ensembles with SIREn.

Laurel F Kinman, Maria V Carreira, Barrett M Powell, Joseph H Davis

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laurel F KinmanDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: lkinman@mit.edu.
Maria V CarreiraDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Barrett M PowellDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Joseph H DavisDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Computational and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: jhdavis@mit.edu.

Funding

Tools to determine and analyze the structures of molecular machines in motionR01GM144542 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Joseph Davis · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has the potential to capture snapshots of proteins in motion and generate hypotheses linking conformational states to biological function. This potential has been increasingly realized by the advent of machine learning models that allow 100s-1,000s of 3D density maps to be generated from a single dataset. How to identify distinct structural states within these volume ensembles and quantify their relative occupancies remain open questions. Here, we present an approach to inferring variable regions directly from a volume ensemble based on the statistical co-occupancy of voxels, as well as a 3D convolutional neural network that predicts binarization thresholds for volumes in an unbiased and automated manner. We show that these tools recapitulate known heterogeneity in a variety of simulated and real cryo-EM datasets and highlight how integrating these tools with existing data processing pipelines enables improved particle curation.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyProteinsImaging, Three-DimensionalMachine LearningModels, MolecularNeural Networks, ComputerProtein ConformationSoftwareProteinscryoDRGNcryo-EMcryo-ETdeep learningstructural biology

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PMID40068687
PMCPMC12055258

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