用冷冻电镜密度图直接微调模型,生成蛋白质原子构象集合。
Modeling Atomic Conformational Ensembles of Proteins via Test-Time Supervision of Boltz-2 on Cryo-EM Density Maps

- 直接在原始冷冻电镜图上微调Boltz-2模型,跳过传统两阶段流程。
- 构建精度优于以往方法,对未见序列也能采样多样构象。
- 适合需要高精度蛋白质动态结构的研究者使用。
蛋白质的原子构象集合对其功能至关重要,但现有构象预测模型受限于高质量构象数据的缺乏。冷冻电镜(cryo-EM)的异质重建技术使科学家能够观测大分子复合物的密度图集合,但将原子模型构建到这些图中仍具挑战。传统方法需先通过建模将实验密度图转为原子结构,再用于训练序列到原子构象的预测模型。本文提出一种新方法:直接在原始冷冻电镜密度图上微调预训练的静态结构模型(如Boltz-2),无需两阶段流程。我们将其应用于原子模型构建,通过微调Boltz-2从输入的冷冻电镜密度图集合中生成原子构象,实现更优的建模精度。此外,CryoSampler在微调后展现出初步的域内泛化能力,能在不依赖新冷冻电镜数据的前提下,为同蛋白家族中的未见序列采样多样化原子构象。这表明该方法具备直接基于原始冷冻电镜数据训练下一代原子构象预测模型的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Knowledge of a protein's atomic conformational ensemble is critical to determining its function, yet state-of-the-art ensemble prediction models are limited by lack of high-quality conformational data from simulation or experiment. Recent advances in heterogeneous reconstruction for cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have enabled scientists to visualize ensembles of density maps for larger proteins and complexes not typically accessible through simulation, but building atomic models into these maps remains a challenge. Traditionally, ensemble prediction models are trained via a two-stage process: experimental density maps are converted into atomic structural ensembles through model building, after which these structures are used to train sequence-to-atomic ensemble predictors. In this work, we propose a new principle for fine-tuning pre-trained static structure prediction models such as Boltz-2 directly on raw cryo-EM maps, bypassing the two-stage process. We apply this technique to the problem of atomic model building by fine-tuning Boltz-2 to generate atomic conformations from an input ensemble of cryo-EM maps, achieving superior model building accuracy compared to prior work. Beyond overfitting to individual map ensembles, our method, CryoSampler, also shows preliminary evidence of in-domain generalization after fine-tuning, sampling diverse atomic conformations for an unseen sequences within the same protein family without requiring cryo-EM data. These capabilities indicate that CryoSampler holds the potential to train next-generation atomic ensemble prediction models directly on raw cryo-EM measurements.
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