Unified modeling of mutation-induced protein stability responses with OmegaTherm
Wenkang WangiD, Yihang ZhouiD, Wentao YuiD, Yifan WuiD, Qiurong Yang, Fanding XuiD, Ruiqing ZhengiD, Xiaoqiang HuangiD, Min Li, Yang ZhangiD
Abstract
Accurate prediction of mutation-induced protein stability responses, including changes in folding free energy and melting temperature, is critical for protein engineering. Existing models represent these related but non-equivalent measurements separately and often focus on single mutations. Here we present OmegaTherm, a sequence-based framework that jointly learns both stability responses for single and multiple mutations. OmegaTherm introduces a shared protein language model to capture transferable mutation context, measurement-specific encoders to preserve measurement identity, and paired-measurement-informed distillation to learn complementary knowledge from heterogeneous data. An antisymmetric prediction architecture further enforces physical consistency between forward and reverse mutations. Across independent benchmarks, OmegaTherm achieves state-of-the-art performance in quantitative prediction, mutation classification and protein-level ranking. Beyond benchmark prediction, OmegaTherm-derived stability landscapes correlate strongly with fitness landscapes from deep mutational scanning, enrich favorable variants and reveal function-associated mutation-sensitive regions. These results establish unified representation learning as an effective strategy for integrating related but non-equivalent biochemical measurements.
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