DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map - Analysis and Visualization
Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Année : 2025

DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map

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We introduce DiffFit, a differentiable algorithm for fitting protein atomistic structures into an experimental reconstructed Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) volume map. In structural biology, this process is necessary to semi-automatically composite large mesoscale models of complex protein assemblies and complete cellular structures that are based on measured cryo-EM data. The current approaches require manual fitting in three dimensions to start, resulting in approximately aligned structures followed by an automated fine-tuning of the alignment. The DiffFit approach enables domain scientists to fit new structures automatically and visualize the results for inspection and interactive revision. The fitting begins with differentiable three-dimensional (3D) rigid transformations of the protein atom coordinates followed by sampling the density values at the atom coordinates from the target cryo-EM volume. To ensure a meaningful correlation between the sampled densities and the protein structure, we proposed a novel loss function based on a multi-resolution volume-array approach and the exploitation of the negative space. This loss function serves as a critical metric for assessing the fitting quality, ensuring the fitting accuracy and an improved visualization of the results. We assessed the placement quality of DiffFit with several large, realistic datasets and found it to be superior to that of previous methods. We further evaluated our method in two use cases: automating the integration of known composite structures into larger protein complexes and facilitating the fitting of predicted protein domains into volume densities to aid researchers in identifying unknown proteins. We implemented our algorithm as an open-source plugin (github.com/nanovis/DiffFitViewer) in ChimeraX, a leading visualization software in the field. All supplemental materials are available at osf.io/5tx4q.
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hal-04665408 , version 1 (31-07-2024)

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Deng Luo, Zainab Alsuwaykit, Dawar Khan, Ondřej Strnad, Tobias Isenberg, et al.. DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, inPress, ⟨10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456404⟩. ⟨hal-04665408⟩
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