Deep learning allows genome-scale prediction of Michaelis constants from structural features
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The Michaelis constant KM describes the affinity of an enzyme for a specific substrate and is a central parameter in studies of enzyme kinetics and cellular physiology. As measurements of KM are often difficult and time-consuming, experimental estimates exist for only a minority of enzyme-substrate combinations even in model organisms. Here, we build and train an organism-independent model that successfully predicts KM values for natural enzyme-substrate combinations using machine and deep learning methods. Predictions are based on a task-specific molecular fingerprint of the substrate, generated using a graph neural network, and on a deep numerical representation of the enzyme's amino acid sequence. We provide genome-scale KM predictions for 47 model organisms, which can be used to approximately relate metabolite concentrations to cellular physiology and to aid in the parameterization of kinetic models of cellular metabolism.
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Deep learning has been applied and shown great performance in modelling chemical spaces, gene expression, enzyme-related parameters such as enzyme affinity and EC numbers.
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- Authors
- Kroll, A., Engqvist, M. K. M., Heckmann, D., & Lercher, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Heckmann, David
- Lercher, Martin J.
- Venue
- PLOS Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2021-10-19
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- e3001402
- ISSN
- 1544-9173 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-7885
- PMC
- PMC8525774
- OpenAlex
- W3207760869
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Volkswagen Foundation ("Life?")
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (CRC 1310, EXC 2048/1, Project ID: 390686111)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Keywords
- Michaelis constant, enzyme kinetics, enzyme-substrate affinity, graph neural networks, molecular fingerprints, model organisms, metabolite concentrations
- MeSH terms
- Deep Learning, Enzymes, Kinetics, Models, Biological, Substrate Specificity, Neural Networks, Computer, Genome, Databases, Genetic, Metabolomics
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