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CryoDRGN-ET: deep reconstructing generative networks for visualizing dynamic biomolecules inside cells.

Ramya Rangan¹, Ryan Feathers¹, Sagar Khavnekar²

¹Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

|July 18, 2024

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CryoDRGN-ET reconstructs heterogeneous macromolecular structures from cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) data. This deep learning method visualizes diverse molecular states and motions within cells, advancing in situ structural biology.

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Area of Science:

Structural Biology
Biophysics
Computational Biology

Background:

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables visualization of macromolecules in native cellular environments at molecular resolution.
Image processing remains a challenge for resolving structural heterogeneity in cryo-ET data.
Existing methods struggle to capture diverse biomolecular states and conformations within cells.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce cryoDRGN-ET, a novel deep learning approach for heterogeneous reconstruction of cryo-ET subtomograms.
To enable visualization of diverse macromolecular states and continuous motions in situ.
To overcome limitations in current cryo-ET image processing for structural heterogeneity.

Main Methods:

Developed cryoDRGN-ET, a deep generative model for 3D density map reconstruction directly from subtomogram tilt-series.
Applied cryoDRGN-ET to analyze Mycoplasma pneumoniae ribosomes to validate translational state recovery.
Utilized cryo-ET on cryo-FIB milled Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to study in situ structures.

Main Results:

Successfully recovered known translational states of M. pneumoniae ribosomes in situ.
Revealed the structural landscape of S. cerevisiae ribosomes during translation.
Captured continuous motions of fatty acid synthase complexes within S. cerevisiae cells.

Conclusions:

CryoDRGN-ET effectively reconstructs heterogeneous macromolecular structures and dynamics from cryo-ET data.
The method provides insights into the functional states and conformational heterogeneity of molecules in their native cellular context.
This open-source software advances the field of in situ structural biology by addressing key image processing bottlenecks.