@article{CharronMusilGuljasetal., author = {Charron, Nicholas and Musil, F{\´e}lix and Guljas, Andrea and Chen, Yaoyi and Bonneau, Klara and Pasos-Trejo, Aldo and Jacopo, Venturin and Daria, Gusew and Zaporozhets, Iryna and Kr{\"a}mer, Andreas and Templeton, Clark and Atharva, Kelkar and Durumeric, Aleksander and Olsson, Simon and P{\´e}rez, Adri{\`a} and Majewski, Maciej and Husic, Brooke and Patel, Ankit and De Fabritiis, Gianni and No{\´e}, Frank and Clementi, Cecilia}, title = {Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model}, series = {Arxiv}, journal = {Arxiv}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.18278}, abstract = {The most popular and universally predictive protein simulation models employ all-atom molecular dynamics (MD), but they come at extreme computational cost. The development of a universal, computationally efficient coarse-grained (CG) model with similar prediction performance has been a long-standing challenge. By combining recent deep learning methods with a large and diverse training set of all-atom protein simulations, we here develop a bottom-up CG force field with chemical transferability, which can be used for extrapolative molecular dynamics on new sequences not used during model parametrization. We demonstrate that the model successfully predicts folded structures, intermediates, metastable folded and unfolded basins, and the fluctuations of intrinsically disordered proteins while it is several orders of magnitude faster than an all-atom model. This showcases the feasibility of a universal and computationally efficient machine-learned CG model for proteins.}, language = {en} } @article{MajewskiPerezThoelkeetal., author = {Majewski, Maciej and P{\´e}rez, Adri{\`a} and Th{\"o}lke, Philipp and Doerr, Stefan and Charron, Nicholas and Giorgino, Toni and Husic, Brooke and Clementi, Cecilia and No{\´e}, Frank and De Fabritiis, Gianni}, title = {Machine learning coarse-grained potentials of protein thermodynamics}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {14}, journal = {Nature Communications}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-023-41343-1}, 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.}, language = {en} }