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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

DEMO-EMol: modeling protein-nucleic acid complex structures from cryo-EM maps by coupling chain assembly with map segmentation.

Ziying Zhang, Liang Xu, Shuai Zhang, Chunxiang Peng, Guijun Zhang, Xiaogen Zhou

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. 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. MultilevelCurrent research in structural biology · 2026
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  5. When cryo-EM modeling meets structure prediction.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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Ziying ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Liang XuCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Shuai ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Chunxiang PengDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States.
Guijun ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7815-5884
Xiaogen ZhouCollege of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6839-1923

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Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang RF-C2024006General Scientific Research Projects of Zhejiang Education Department Y202455578Leading Innovative and Entrepreneur Team Introduction Program of Zhejiang 2023R01006National Key R&D Program of China 2022ZD0115103National Nature Science Foundation of China 62201506National Nature Science Foundation of China 62203389"Pioneer" and "Leading Goose" R&D Program of Zhejiang 2025C01121Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Control for Complex SystemsZhejiang Provincial Special Support Program for High-Level Talents 2023R5248
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Abstract

Atomic structure modeling is a crucial step in determining the structures of protein complexes using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). This work introduces DEMO-EMol, an improved server that integrates deep learning-based map segmentation and chain fitting to accurately assemble protein-nucleic acid (NA) complex structures from cryo-EM density maps. Starting from a density map and independently modeled chain structures, DEMO-EMol first segments protein and NA regions from the density map using deep learning. The overall complex is then assembled by fitting protein and NA chain models into their respective segmented maps, followed by domain-level fitting and optimization for protein chains. The output of DEMO-EMol includes the final assembled complex model along with overall and residue-level quality assessments. DEMO-EMol was evaluated on a comprehensive benchmark set of cryo-EM maps with resolutions ranging from 1.96 to 12.77 Å, and the results demonstrated its superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods for both protein-NA and protein-protein complex modeling. The DEMO-EMol web server is freely accessible at https://zhanggroup.org/DEMO-EMol/.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyNucleic AcidsProteinsSoftwareDeep LearningModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationNucleic AcidsProteins

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