@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} }