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A Bayesian approach to extracting free-energy profiles from cryo-electron microscopy experiments

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) extracts single-particle density projections of individual biomolecules. Although cryo-EM is widely used for 3D reconstruction, due to its single-particle nature it has the potential to provide information about a biomolecule's conformational variability and underlying free-energy landscape. However, treating cryo-EM as a single-molecule technique is challenging because of the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in individual particles. In this work, we propose the cryo-BIFE method (cryo-EM Bayesian Inference of Free-Energy profiles), which uses a path collective variable to extract free-energy profiles and their uncertainties from cryo-EM images. We test the framework on several synthetic systems where the imaging parameters and conditions were controlled. We found that for realistic cryo-EM environments and relevant biomolecular systems, it is possible to recover the underlying free energy, with the pose accuracy and SNR as crucial determinants. We then use the method to study the conformational transitions of a calciumactivated channel with real cryo-EM particles. Interestingly, we recover not only the most probable conformation (used to generate a high-resolution reconstruction of the calcium-bound state) but also a metastable state that corresponds to the calcium-unbound conformation. As expected for turnover transitions within the same sample, the activation barriers are on the order of k B T. We expect our tool for extracting free-energy profiles from cryo-EM images to enable more complete characterization of the thermodynamic ensemble of biomolecules.
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hal-03278036 , version 1 (05-07-2021)

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Julian Giraldo-Barreto, Sebastian Ortiz, Erik H Thiede, Karen Palacio-Rodriguez, Bob Carpenter, et al.. A Bayesian approach to extracting free-energy profiles from cryo-electron microscopy experiments. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-92621-1⟩. ⟨hal-03278036⟩
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