Learning the PTM Code through a Coarse-to-Fine, Mechanism-Aware Framework

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• Title: Learning the PTM Code through a Coarse-to-Fine, Mechanism-Aware Framework
• ArXiv ID: 2510.23492
• Date: 2025-10-27
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📝 Abstract

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) form a combinatorial "code" that regulates protein function, yet deciphering this code - linking modified sites to their catalytic enzymes - remains a central unsolved problem in understanding cellular signaling and disease. We introduce COMPASS-PTM, a mechanism-aware, coarse-to-fine learning framework that unifies residue-level PTM profiling with enzyme-substrate assignment. COMPASS-PTM integrates evolutionary representations from protein language models with physicochemical priors and a crosstalk-aware prompting mechanism that explicitly models inter-PTM dependencies. This design allows the model to learn biologically coherent patterns of cooperative and antagonistic modifications while addressing the dual long-tail distribution of PTM data. Across multiple proteome-scale benchmarks, COMPASS-PTM establishes new state-of-the-art performance, including a 122% relative F1 improvement in multi-label site prediction and a 54% gain in zero-shot enzyme assignment. Beyond accuracy, the model demonstrates interpretable generalization, recovering canonical kinase motifs and predicting disease-associated PTM rewiring caused by missense variants. By bridging statistical learning with biochemical mechanism, COMPASS-PTM unifies site-level and enzyme-level prediction into a single framework that learns the grammar underlying protein regulation and signaling.

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