Solving Inverse Problems in Protein Space Using Diffusion-Based Priors

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Main Authors: Levy, Axel, Chan, Eric R., Fridovich-Keil, Sara, Poitevin, Frédéric, Zhong, Ellen D., Wetzstein, Gordon
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author Levy, Axel
Chan, Eric R.
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Poitevin, Frédéric
Zhong, Ellen D.
Wetzstein, Gordon
author_facet Levy, Axel
Chan, Eric R.
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Poitevin, Frédéric
Zhong, Ellen D.
Wetzstein, Gordon
contents The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on biological processes but introduce challenging inverse problems. Learning-based approaches have emerged as accurate and efficient methods to solve these inverse problems for 3D structure determination, but are specialized for a predefined type of measurement. Here, we introduce a versatile framework to turn biophysical measurements, such as cryo-EM density maps, into 3D atomic models. Our method combines a physics-based forward model of the measurement process with a pretrained generative model providing a task-agnostic, data-driven prior. Our method outperforms posterior sampling baselines on linear and non-linear inverse problems. In particular, it is the first diffusion-based method for refining atomic models from cryo-EM maps and building atomic models from sparse distance matrices.
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spellingShingle Solving Inverse Problems in Protein Space Using Diffusion-Based Priors
Levy, Axel
Chan, Eric R.
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Poitevin, Frédéric
Zhong, Ellen D.
Wetzstein, Gordon
Machine Learning
The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on biological processes but introduce challenging inverse problems. Learning-based approaches have emerged as accurate and efficient methods to solve these inverse problems for 3D structure determination, but are specialized for a predefined type of measurement. Here, we introduce a versatile framework to turn biophysical measurements, such as cryo-EM density maps, into 3D atomic models. Our method combines a physics-based forward model of the measurement process with a pretrained generative model providing a task-agnostic, data-driven prior. Our method outperforms posterior sampling baselines on linear and non-linear inverse problems. In particular, it is the first diffusion-based method for refining atomic models from cryo-EM maps and building atomic models from sparse distance matrices.
title Solving Inverse Problems in Protein Space Using Diffusion-Based Priors
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04239