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Kidder KM, Shell MS, Noid WG. Surveying the energy landscape of coarse-grained mappings. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:054105. [PMID: 38310476 DOI: 10.1063/5.0182524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Simulations of soft materials often adopt low-resolution coarse-grained (CG) models. However, the CG representation is not unique and its impact upon simulated properties is poorly understood. In this work, we investigate the space of CG representations for ubiquitin, which is a typical globular protein with 72 amino acids. We employ Monte Carlo methods to ergodically sample this space and to characterize its landscape. By adopting the Gaussian network model as an analytically tractable atomistic model for equilibrium fluctuations, we exactly assess the intrinsic quality of each CG representation without introducing any approximations in sampling configurations or in modeling interactions. We focus on two metrics, the spectral quality and the information content, that quantify the extent to which the CG representation preserves low-frequency, large-amplitude motions and configurational information, respectively. The spectral quality and information content are weakly correlated among high-resolution representations but become strongly anticorrelated among low-resolution representations. Representations with maximal spectral quality appear consistent with physical intuition, while low-resolution representations with maximal information content do not. Interestingly, quenching studies indicate that the energy landscape of mapping space is very smooth and highly connected. Moreover, our study suggests a critical resolution below which a "phase transition" qualitatively distinguishes good and bad representations.
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- Katherine M Kidder
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Navarro C, Majewski M, De Fabritiis G. Top-Down Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Protein Force Fields. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:7518-7526. [PMID: 37874270 PMCID: PMC10777392 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
Abstract
Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended time scales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular dynamics and utilizing the resulting trajectories to train a neural network potential through differentiable trajectory reweighting. Remarkably, this method requires only the native conformation of proteins, eliminating the need for labeled data derived from extensive simulations or memory-intensive end-to-end differentiable simulations. Once trained, the model can be employed to run parallel molecular dynamics simulations and sample folding events for proteins both within and beyond the training distribution, showcasing its extrapolation capabilities. By applying Markov state models, native-like conformations of the simulated proteins can be predicted from the coarse-grained simulations. Owing to its theoretical transferability and ability to use solely experimental static structures as training data, we anticipate that this approach will prove advantageous for developing new protein force fields and further advancing the study of protein dynamics, folding, and interactions.
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- Carles Navarro
- Acellera
Labs, Doctor Trueta 183, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- Acellera
Ltd., Devonshire House
582, Middlesex HA7 1JS, United Kingdom
- Institució
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Majewski M, Pérez A, Thölke P, Doerr S, Charron NE, Giorgino T, Husic BE, Clementi C, Noé F, De Fabritiis G. Machine learning coarse-grained potentials of protein thermodynamics. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5739. [PMID: 37714883 PMCID: PMC10504246 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41343-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
Abstract
A generalized understanding of protein dynamics is an unsolved scientific problem, the solution of which is critical to the interpretation of the structure-function relationships that govern essential biological processes. Here, we approach this problem by constructing coarse-grained molecular potentials based on artificial neural networks and grounded in statistical mechanics. For training, we build a unique dataset of unbiased all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of approximately 9 ms for twelve different proteins with multiple secondary structure arrangements. The coarse-grained models are capable of accelerating the dynamics by more than three orders of magnitude while preserving the thermodynamics of the systems. Coarse-grained simulations identify relevant structural states in the ensemble with comparable energetics to the all-atom systems. Furthermore, we show that a single coarse-grained potential can integrate all twelve proteins and can capture experimental structural features of mutated proteins. These results indicate that machine learning coarse-grained potentials could provide a feasible approach to simulate and understand protein dynamics.
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- Maciej Majewski
- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
- Acellera Labs, Doctor Trueta 183, 08005, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
- Acellera Labs, Doctor Trueta 183, 08005, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Acellera Labs, Doctor Trueta 183, 08005, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
- Department of Physics, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Biophysics Institute, National Research Council (CNR-IBF), 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
- Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
- Center for the Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
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- Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
- Department of Physics, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
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- Department of Physics, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
- Microsoft Research AI4Science, Karl-Liebknecht Str. 32, 10178, Berlin, Germany.
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Carrer Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
- Acellera Labs, Doctor Trueta 183, 08005, Barcelona, Spain.
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
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Köhler J, Chen Y, Krämer A, Clementi C, Noé F. Flow-Matching: Efficient Coarse-Graining of Molecular Dynamics without Forces. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:942-952. [PMID: 36668906 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
Coarse-grained (CG) molecular simulations have become a standard tool to study molecular processes on time and length scales inaccessible to all-atom simulations. Parametrizing CG force fields to match all-atom simulations has mainly relied on force-matching or relative entropy minimization, which require many samples from costly simulations with all-atom or CG resolutions, respectively. Here we present flow-matching, a new training method for CG force fields that combines the advantages of both methods by leveraging normalizing flows, a generative deep learning method. Flow-matching first trains a normalizing flow to represent the CG probability density, which is equivalent to minimizing the relative entropy without requiring iterative CG simulations. Subsequently, the flow generates samples and forces according to the learned distribution in order to train the desired CG free energy model via force-matching. Even without requiring forces from the all-atom simulations, flow-matching outperforms classical force-matching by an order of magnitude in terms of data efficiency and produces CG models that can capture the folding and unfolding transitions of small proteins.
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- Jonas Köhler
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany.,Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States.,Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany.,Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany.,Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States.,Microsoft Research AI4Science, Karl-Liebknecht Strasse 32, 10178Berlin, Germany
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Chen Y, Krämer A, Charron NE, Husic BE, Clementi C, Noé F. Machine learning implicit solvation for molecular dynamics. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:084101. [PMID: 34470360 DOI: 10.1063/5.0059915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Accurate modeling of the solvent environment for biological molecules is crucial for computational biology and drug design. A popular approach to achieve long simulation time scales for large system sizes is to incorporate the effect of the solvent in a mean-field fashion with implicit solvent models. However, a challenge with existing implicit solvent models is that they often lack accuracy or certain physical properties compared to explicit solvent models as the many-body effects of the neglected solvent molecules are difficult to model as a mean field. Here, we leverage machine learning (ML) and multi-scale coarse graining (CG) in order to learn implicit solvent models that can approximate the energetic and thermodynamic properties of a given explicit solvent model with arbitrary accuracy, given enough training data. Following the previous ML-CG models CGnet and CGSchnet, we introduce ISSNet, a graph neural network, to model the implicit solvent potential of mean force. ISSNet can learn from explicit solvent simulation data and be readily applied to molecular dynamics simulations. We compare the solute conformational distributions under different solvation treatments for two peptide systems. The results indicate that ISSNet models can outperform widely used generalized Born and surface area models in reproducing the thermodynamics of small protein systems with respect to explicit solvent. The success of this novel method demonstrates the potential benefit of applying machine learning methods in accurate modeling of solvent effects for in silico research and biomedical applications.
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- Yaoyi Chen
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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Wang J, Charron N, Husic B, Olsson S, Noé F, Clementi C. Multi-body effects in a coarse-grained protein force field. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:164113. [PMID: 33940848 DOI: 10.1063/5.0041022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
The use of coarse-grained (CG) models is a popular approach to study complex biomolecular systems. By reducing the number of degrees of freedom, a CG model can explore long time- and length-scales inaccessible to computational models at higher resolution. If a CG model is designed by formally integrating out some of the system's degrees of freedom, one expects multi-body interactions to emerge in the effective CG model's energy function. In practice, it has been shown that the inclusion of multi-body terms indeed improves the accuracy of a CG model. However, no general approach has been proposed to systematically construct a CG effective energy that includes arbitrary orders of multi-body terms. In this work, we propose a neural network based approach to address this point and construct a CG model as a multi-body expansion. By applying this approach to a small protein, we evaluate the relative importance of the different multi-body terms in the definition of an accurate model. We observe a slow convergence in the multi-body expansion, where up to five-body interactions are needed to reproduce the free energy of an atomistic model.
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- Jiang Wang
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Giulini M, Rigoli M, Mattiotti G, Menichetti R, Tarenzi T, Fiorentini R, Potestio R. From System Modeling to System Analysis: The Impact of Resolution Level and Resolution Distribution in the Computer-Aided Investigation of Biomolecules. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:676976. [PMID: 34164432 PMCID: PMC8215203 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.676976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The ever increasing computer power, together with the improved accuracy of atomistic force fields, enables researchers to investigate biological systems at the molecular level with remarkable detail. However, the relevant length and time scales of many processes of interest are still hardly within reach even for state-of-the-art hardware, thus leaving important questions often unanswered. The computer-aided investigation of many biological physics problems thus largely benefits from the usage of coarse-grained models, that is, simplified representations of a molecule at a level of resolution that is lower than atomistic. A plethora of coarse-grained models have been developed, which differ most notably in their granularity; this latter aspect determines one of the crucial open issues in the field, i.e. the identification of an optimal degree of coarsening, which enables the greatest simplification at the expenses of the smallest information loss. In this review, we present the problem of coarse-grained modeling in biophysics from the viewpoint of system representation and information content. In particular, we discuss two distinct yet complementary aspects of protein modeling: on the one hand, the relationship between the resolution of a model and its capacity of accurately reproducing the properties of interest; on the other hand, the possibility of employing a lower resolution description of a detailed model to extract simple, useful, and intelligible information from the latter.
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- Marco Giulini
- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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Husic BE, Charron NE, Lemm D, Wang J, Pérez A, Majewski M, Krämer A, Chen Y, Olsson S, de Fabritiis G, Noé F, Clementi C. Coarse graining molecular dynamics with graph neural networks. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:194101. [PMID: 33218238 PMCID: PMC7671749 DOI: 10.1063/5.0026133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Coarse graining enables the investigation of molecular dynamics for larger systems and at longer timescales than is possible at an atomic resolution. However, a coarse graining model must be formulated such that the conclusions we draw from it are consistent with the conclusions we would draw from a model at a finer level of detail. It has been proved that a force matching scheme defines a thermodynamically consistent coarse-grained model for an atomistic system in the variational limit. Wang et al. [ACS Cent. Sci. 5, 755 (2019)] demonstrated that the existence of such a variational limit enables the use of a supervised machine learning framework to generate a coarse-grained force field, which can then be used for simulation in the coarse-grained space. Their framework, however, requires the manual input of molecular features to machine learn the force field. In the present contribution, we build upon the advance of Wang et al. and introduce a hybrid architecture for the machine learning of coarse-grained force fields that learn their own features via a subnetwork that leverages continuous filter convolutions on a graph neural network architecture. We demonstrate that this framework succeeds at reproducing the thermodynamics for small biomolecular systems. Since the learned molecular representations are inherently transferable, the architecture presented here sets the stage for the development of machine-learned, coarse-grained force fields that are transferable across molecular systems.
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Andreas Krämer
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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Foley TT, Kidder KM, Shell MS, Noid WG. Exploring the landscape of model representations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:24061-24068. [PMID: 32929015 PMCID: PMC7533877 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000098117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The success of any physical model critically depends upon adopting an appropriate representation for the phenomenon of interest. Unfortunately, it remains generally challenging to identify the essential degrees of freedom or, equivalently, the proper order parameters for describing complex phenomena. Here we develop a statistical physics framework for exploring and quantitatively characterizing the space of order parameters for representing physical systems. Specifically, we examine the space of low-resolution representations that correspond to particle-based coarse-grained (CG) models for a simple microscopic model of protein fluctuations. We employ Monte Carlo (MC) methods to sample this space and determine the density of states for CG representations as a function of their ability to preserve the configurational information, I, and large-scale fluctuations, Q, of the microscopic model. These two metrics are uncorrelated in high-resolution representations but become anticorrelated at lower resolutions. Moreover, our MC simulations suggest an emergent length scale for coarse-graining proteins, as well as a qualitative distinction between good and bad representations of proteins. Finally, we relate our work to recent approaches for clustering graphs and detecting communities in networks.
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Affiliation(s)
- Thomas T Foley
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
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Wang J, Chmiela S, Müller KR, Noé F, Clementi C. Ensemble learning of coarse-grained molecular dynamics force fields with a kernel approach. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:194106. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0007276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jiang Wang
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, South Korea
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Hempel T, Plattner N, Noé F. Coupling of Conformational Switches in Calcium Sensor Unraveled with Local Markov Models and Transfer Entropy. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:2584-2593. [PMID: 32196329 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Proteins often have multiple switching domains that are coupled to each other and to the binding of ligands in order to realize signaling functions. Here we investigate the C2A domain of Synaptotagmin-1 (Syt-1), a calcium sensor in the neurotransmitter release machinery and a model system for the large family of C2 membrane binding domains. We combine extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with Markov modeling in order to model conformational switching domains, their states, and their dependence on bound calcium ions. Then, we use transfer entropy to characterize how the switching domains are coupled via directed or allosteric mechanisms and give rise to the calcium sensing function of the protein. Our proposed switching mechanism contributes to the understanding of the neurotransmitter release machinery. Furthermore, the methodological approach we develop serves as a template to analyze conformational switching domains and the broad study of their coupling in macromolecular machines.
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- Tim Hempel
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Physics, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Physics, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Abstract
Machine learning (ML) is transforming all areas of science. The complex and time-consuming calculations in molecular simulations are particularly suitable for an ML revolution and have already been profoundly affected by the application of existing ML methods. Here we review recent ML methods for molecular simulation, with particular focus on (deep) neural networks for the prediction of quantum-mechanical energies and forces, on coarse-grained molecular dynamics, on the extraction of free energy surfaces and kinetics, and on generative network approaches to sample molecular equilibrium structures and compute thermodynamics. To explain these methods and illustrate open methodological problems, we review some important principles of molecular physics and describe how they can be incorporated into ML structures. Finally, we identify and describe a list of open challenges for the interface between ML and molecular simulation.
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- Frank Noé
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany; .,Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA;
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- Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, 1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg;
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- Department of Computer Science, Technical University Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany; .,Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.,Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, South Korea
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany; .,Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA; .,Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Nüske F, Boninsegna L, Clementi C. Coarse-graining molecular systems by spectral matching. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:044116. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5100131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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- Feliks Nüske
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
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Wang J, Olsson S, Wehmeyer C, Pérez A, Charron NE, de Fabritiis G, Noé F, Clementi C. Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Force Fields. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2019; 5:755-767. [PMID: 31139712 PMCID: PMC6535777 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Atomistic or ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such computationally expensive simulations is the definition of coarse-grained molecular models. Existing coarse-graining approaches define an effective interaction potential to match defined properties of high-resolution models or experimental data. In this paper, we reformulate coarse-graining as a supervised machine learning problem. We use statistical learning theory to decompose the coarse-graining error and cross-validation to select and compare the performance of different models. We introduce CGnets, a deep learning approach, that learns coarse-grained free energy functions and can be trained by a force-matching scheme. CGnets maintain all physically relevant invariances and allow one to incorporate prior physics knowledge to avoid sampling of unphysical structures. We show that CGnets can capture all-atom explicit-solvent free energy surfaces with models using only a few coarse-grained beads and no solvent, while classical coarse-graining methods fail to capture crucial features of the free energy surface. Thus, CGnets are able to capture multibody terms that emerge from the dimensionality reduction.
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- Jiang Wang
- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- Institucio
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Chen J, Chen J, Pinamonti G, Clementi C. Learning Effective Molecular Models from Experimental Observables. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:3849-3858. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Justin Chen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Amaro RE, Mulholland AJ. Multiscale Methods in Drug Design Bridge Chemical and Biological Complexity in the Search for Cures. Nat Rev Chem 2018; 2:0148. [PMID: 30949587 PMCID: PMC6445369 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-018-0148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Drug action is inherently multiscale: it connects molecular interactions to emergent properties at cellular and larger scales. Simulation techniques at each of these different scales are already central to drug design and development, but methods capable of connecting across these scales will extend understanding of complex mechanisms and the ability to predict biological effects. Improved algorithms, ever-more-powerful computing architectures and the accelerating growth of rich datasets are driving advances in multiscale modeling methods capable of bridging chemical and biological complexity from the atom to the cell. Particularly exciting is the development of highly detailed, structure-based, physical simulations of biochemical systems, which are now able to access experimentally relevant timescales for large systems and, at the same time, achieve unprecedented accuracy. In this Perspective, we discuss how emerging data-rich, physics-based multiscale approaches are of the cusp of realizing long-promised impact in the discovery, design and development of novel therapeutics. We highlight emerging methods and applications in this growing field, and outline how different scales can be combined in practical modelling and simulation strategies.
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- Rommie E Amaro
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0304
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- Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
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