MDSPACE and MDTOMO Software for Extracting Continuous Conformational Landscapes from Datasets of Single Particle Images and Subtomograms Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Latest Developments in ContinuousFlex Software Package.

Autor: Vuillemot R; IMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France., Harastani M; IMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France., Hamitouche I; IMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France., Jonic S; IMPMC-UMR 7590 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of molecular sciences [Int J Mol Sci] 2023 Dec 19; Vol. 25 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 19.
DOI: 10.3390/ijms25010020
Abstrakt: Cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) instrumentation allows obtaining 3D reconstruction of the structure of biomolecular complexes in vitro (purified complexes studied by single particle analysis) and in situ (complexes studied in cells by cryo electron tomography). Standard cryo-EM approaches allow high-resolution reconstruction of only a few conformational states of a molecular complex, as they rely on data classification into a given number of classes to increase the resolution of the reconstruction from the most populated classes while discarding all other classes. Such discrete classification approaches result in a partial picture of the full conformational variability of the complex, due to continuous conformational transitions with many, uncountable intermediate states. In this article, we present the software with a user-friendly graphical interface for running two recently introduced methods, namely, MDSPACE and MDTOMO, to obtain continuous conformational landscapes of biomolecules by analyzing in vitro and in situ cryo-EM data (single particle images and subtomograms) based on molecular dynamics simulations of an available atomic model of one of the conformations. The MDSPACE and MDTOMO software is part of the open-source ContinuousFlex software package (starting from version 3.4.2 of ContinuousFlex), which can be run as a plugin of the Scipion software package (version 3.1 and later), broadly used in the cryo-EM field.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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