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ArticleJournal of microbiology and biotechnology2026

Deep Learning-Based Protein Half-Life Prediction for Identifying Rate-Limiting Enzymes in Metabolic Pathways to Alleviate Bottleneck Reactions.

Yunhyeok Lee, Jun Ren, Jingyu Lee, Minh Thi-Hong Tran, Yubin Kim, Youngseo Chang, So Hee Oh, Hyang-Mi Lee, Dokyun Na

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Article in Journal of microbiology and biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yunhyeok LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Jun RenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Jingyu LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Minh Thi-Hong TranDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Yubin KimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Youngseo ChangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
So Hee OhDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Hyang-Mi LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.
Dokyun NaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea.

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Abstract

In synthetic metabolic pathways, the intracellular level of enzymes is a critical determinant of pathway efficiency and, thus, short-lived enzymes create bottlenecks and limit overall metabolic productivity due to their low abundance. However, since studies on protein half-life remain limited in bacteria, its accurate prediction is a significant challenge. To address this, we developed a machine learning model, ProHL, for the classification of short-lived and long-lived proteins. ProHL employs a multimodal strategy, integrating ProteinBERT encodings (at both residue and sequence levels) with physicochemical encodings of the protein sequences. This integration enables the effective capture of both local and global sequence features, thereby ensuring accurate half-life classification. When evaluated on an independent test dataset of

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EnzymesEscherichia coli ProteinsMetabolic Networks and PathwaysComputational BiologyEscherichia coliHalf-LifeLycopeneMachine LearningMetabolic EngineeringPrediction AlgorithmsPredictive Learning ModelsEnzymesEscherichia coli ProteinsLycopeneLycopeneMachine learningMetabolic engineeringMetabolic pathwayProtein half-life

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