GotEnzymes2: expanding coverage of enzyme kinetics and thermal properties
Journal article, 2025

Enzyme kinetics are fundamental for understanding metabolism, yet experimentally measured parameters remain scarce. To address this gap, we introduce GotEnzymes2, a substantially expanded resource covering 10 765 species, 7.3 million enzymes, and 59.6 million unique entries. Compared with the first version, GotEnzymes2 now integrates both catalytic and thermal parameters, enabling unified predictions of kcat, Km,kcat/Km, optimal temperature, and melting temperature. This expansion markedly broadens species and enzyme coverage, creating the most comprehensive database of enzyme kinetic and stability parameters to date. To construct the resource, we systematically benchmarked state-of-the-art models for catalytic and thermal parameter prediction, and incorporated the best-performing strategies to ensure accuracy and generalizability. Altogether, GotEnzymes2 provides the community with a powerful resource for data-driven enzyme discovery, design, and engineering, with broad applications in systems biology, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology. GotEnzymes2 is publicly accessible at https://metabolicatlas.org/gotenzymes.

Author

Bingxue Lyu

Tsinghua University

Ke Wu

Tsinghua University

Yuanyuan Huang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Petre Mihail Anton

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Xiongwen Li

Tsinghua University

Sandra Viknander

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Danish Anwer

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Yunfeng Yang

Tsinghua University

Diannan Lu

Tsinghua University

Eduard Kerkhoven

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Aleksej Zelezniak

Chalmers, Life Sciences, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Dan Gao

Tsinghua University

Yu Chen

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Feiran Li

Tsinghua University

Nucleic Acids Research

0305-1048 (ISSN) 1362-4962 (eISSN)

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Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Molecular Biology

DOI

10.1093/nar/gkaf1053

PubMed

41171142

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11/24/2025