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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2026

EMProt improves structure determination from cryo-EM maps.

Tao Li, Ji Chen, Hao Li, Hong Cao, Sheng-You Huang

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Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. AI-Physics-Experiment Trinity for Integrated Protein Dynamics Modeling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  2. When cryo-EM modeling meets structure prediction.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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  3. Closing 2025, and a look ahead.Nature structural & molecular biology · 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.
Ji ChenSchool of Physics and Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Hao 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.
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 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4209-4565

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Abstract

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become the mainstream technique for macromolecular structure determination. However, because of intrinsic resolution heterogeneity, accurate modeling of all-atom structure from cryo-EM maps remains challenging even for maps at near-atomic resolution. Addressing the challenge, we present EMProt, a fully automated method for accurate protein structure determination from cryo-EM maps by efficiently integrating map information and structure prediction with a three-track attention network. EMProt is extensively evaluated on a diverse test set of 177 experimental cryo-EM maps with up to 54 chains in a case at <4-Å resolution, and compared to state-of-the-art methods including DeepMainmast, ModelAngelo, phenix.dock_and_rebuild and AlphaFold3. It is shown that EMProt greatly outperforms the existing methods in recovering the protein structure and building the complete structure. In addition, the built models by EMrot exhibit a high accuracy in model-to-map fit and structure validations.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyProteinsSoftwareModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteins

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