EnzOracle: Mechanism-aware prediction of enzyme environmental adaptation via a classification-guided mixture-of-experts framework
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Industrial biocatalysis increasingly requires enzymes capable of operating under extreme physicochemical conditions, yet most natural sequence data reflect adaptation to mild environments, leading conventional predictive models to suffer from regression-to-the-mean effects in extremophilic regimes. Here we present EnzOracle, a classification-guided mixture-of-experts framework that enables distribution-aware prediction of enzyme melting temperature ( T m ), optimal catalytic temperature ( T opt ), and optimal pH ( pH opt ) directly from sequence. EnzOracle demonstrated robust predictive accuracy across diverse benchmarks, achieving RMSE of 5.245°C for T m , 11.458°C for T opt , and 0.781 for pH opt . Beyond predictive accuracy, we introduce a trait-resolved molecular simulation strategy to evaluate whether EnzOracle-derived attribution patterns correspond to independent physical mechanisms. Across representative systems, attention hotspots mapped onto rigidity-conferring interaction networks for T m , dynamically preorganized active-site ensembles for T opt , and pH-dependent electrostatic and hydration networks for pH opt . These orthogonal validations indicate that EnzOracle captures transferable biophysical principles of enzyme environmental adaptation rather than merely exploiting dataset-specific correlations, positioning sequence-based learning as a mechanism-aware framework for discovering stability and activity determinants across diverse catalytic landscapes.