StruCloze: A Unified Framework for Backmapping and Inpainting Biomolecule Structures

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Authors: J. Zhu, Zirui Fan, Zhengxin Li, Zhuoqi Zheng, Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen, Haifeng Chen
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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.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Protein Structure and Dynamics Enzyme Structure and Function RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Publication details

Journal / source
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Volume
22
Issue
11
Pages
5895–5908
Publication date
27 May 2026
Language
EN