Protein structure fitting and refinement guided by cryo-EM density |
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Authors: | Topf Maya Lasker Keren Webb Ben Wolfson Haim Chiu Wah Sali Andrej |
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Institution: | School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom. m.topf@cryst.bbk.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | For many macromolecular assemblies, both a cryo-electron microscopy map and atomic structures of its component proteins are available. Here we describe a method for fitting and refining a component structure within its map at intermediate resolution (<15 A). The atomic positions are optimized with respect to a scoring function that includes the crosscorrelation coefficient between the structure and the map as well as stereochemical and nonbonded interaction terms. A heuristic optimization that relies on a Monte Carlo search, a conjugate-gradients minimization, and simulated annealing molecular dynamics is applied to a series of subdivisions of the structure into progressively smaller rigid bodies. The method was tested on 15 proteins of known structure with 13 simulated maps and 3 experimentally determined maps. At approximately 10 A resolution, Calpha rmsd between the initial and final structures was reduced on average by approximately 53%. The method is automated and can refine both experimental and predicted atomic structures. |
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