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ArticlePLoS biology2021

Deep learning allows genome-scale prediction of Michaelis constants from structural features.

Alexander Kroll, Martin K M Engqvist, David Heckmann, Martin J Lercher

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Article in PLoS biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Alexander KrollInstitute for Computer Science and Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8670-7039
Martin K M EngqvistDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2174-2225
David HeckmannInstitute for Computer Science and Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1422-1712
Martin J LercherInstitute for Computer Science and Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3940-1621

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 LearningGenomeDatabases, GeneticEnzymesKineticsMetabolomicsModels, BiologicalNeural Networks, ComputerSubstrate SpecificityEnzymes

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PMID34665809
PMCPMC8525774

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