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StruCloze: A Unified Framework for Backmapping and Inpainting Biomolecule Structures
Junjie Zhu1, Zirui Fan1, Zhengxin Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Abstract:
Atomistic resolution is essential for understanding biomolecular structure and function, yet coarse-grained (CG) models remain indispensable for simulating large and dynamic systems. Reconstructing accurate all-atom structures from CG representations, particularly across varied CG schemes and biomolecular types, remains a fundamental challenge. Moreover, flexible or disordered regions may well suffer from failure in structure modeling, making inpainting missing regions another challenging task. Here, we present StruCloze, a deep learning framework for reconstructing atomistic structures from CG models and inpainting missing regions for both proteins and nucleic acids. StruCloze generalizes across various CG levels and biomolecule types on single pretraining, with fine-tuning required for optimal performance on specific representations. It achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in reconstructing both protein and nucleic acid structures and demonstrates superior transferability and speed compared to existing methods. Leveraging masked learning strategy, StruCloze also excels at inpainting structurally missing regions in structures, offering a practical tool for structural refinement and integrative modeling. Our framework provides a general solution for bridging reduced or incomplete representations with full atomistic detail of biomolecular structures, enabling rapid local structure prediction and further analysis on system dynamics.
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