EnzCast: Prediction of Patient-Specific Enzymatic Kinetics through Multi-Modal Deep Learning and Isoform-Resolved Bayesian Inference based on Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Journal:
bioRxiv
Published Date:
Apr 30, 2026
Abstract
Enzyme kinetic parameters underpin mechanistic biology but remain sparse in physiological context. We present EnzCast, a multi-modal framework jointly predicting Km, kcat, kcat/Km, and Ki from protein sequence, 3D structure, substrate chemistry, and experimental conditions, paired with IsoKin, an isoform-resolved Bayesian framework converting EnzCast priors into patient-specific in vivo kinetics. Trained on KinBench, the largest curated kinetics database, task-adaptive EnzCast achieved R2 = 0.413, 0.455, 0.227, and 0.105 for Km, Ki, kcat, and kcat/Km, surpassing all baselines on catalytic tasks. Systematic condition scans recovered compartment-specific pH direction inversion and pathway-level temperature responses. In a 20-patient colorectal cancer single-cell cohort, IsoKin reduced posterior uncertainty by 73.3% and 77.3%, revealing cell-type-specific rewiring. Orthogonal validation--scFEA flux, DepMap essentiality (permutation P = 0.0008) and TCGA survival--provided mixed but directionally consistent support. Together, EnzCast and IsoKin bridge in vitro prediction, condition-aware biochemical interrogation and patient-resolved in vivo inference.
