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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Reaching the full potential of cryo-EM reconstructions with molecular dynamics simulations at 310 K: Actin filaments as an example.

Sahithya Sridharan Iyer, Kristina M Herman, Tamsuk Paul, Yihang Wang, Thomas D Pollard, Gregory A Voth

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sahithya Sridharan IyerDepartment of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0009-0000-5591-5177
Kristina M HermanDepartment of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Tamsuk PaulDepartment of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Yihang WangDepartment of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Thomas D PollardDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.ORCID 0000-0002-1785-2969
Gregory A VothDepartment of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0002-3267-6748

Funding

New Method for Biomembrane SimulationsR01GM063796 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI VOTH, GREGORY A. · 2001 to 2025
$6.3M
Multiscale Simulation of Key Biomolecular Processes in the CellR35GM158238 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI VOTH, GREGORY A. · 2025 to 2025
$2.0M
HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R01GM063796NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063796NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM158238
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Abstract

Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of multiprotein complexes such as actin filaments help explain the mechanisms of assembly and interactions with partner proteins. Yet, rapid cooling during freezing may not preserve the conformations at physiological temperature. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations starting with cryo-EM reconstructions can provide additional insights. For example, at 310 K, adenosinediphosphate (ADP)-actin filaments fluctuate on a nanosecond time scale around higher entropy states with partly twisted subunits and smaller rotations along short-pitch helix than the cryo-EM reconstructions, while cryogenic temperatures favor flattened conformations. In the active site, the positions of Q137 and the catalytic water 1 and activating water 2 optimal for in-line attack on the γ-phosphate of ATP are very rare at 310 K, explaining in part the slow rate of ATP hydrolysis in filaments. This favorable arrangement of the waters is not observed in simulations of actin monomers. At 310 K, subunits in ADP-P

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Actin CytoskeletonCryoelectron MicroscopyMolecular Dynamics SimulationActinsAdenosine DiphosphateAdenosine TriphosphateProtein ConformationTemperatureActinsAdenosine DiphosphateAdenosine Triphosphateactin filamentATP hydrolysiscryo-EMmolecular dynamicsphosphate dissociation

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PMCPMC12685034

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