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Ertekin E, Gencturk E, Kasim M, Ulgen KO. A Drug Repurposing and Protein-Protein Interaction Network Study of Ribosomopathies Using Yeast as a Model System. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2020; 24:96-109. [PMID: 31895625 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2019.0096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ribosomopathies result in various cancers, neurodegenerative and viral diseases, and other pathologies such as Diamond-Blackfan anemia and Shwachman-Diamond syndrome. Their pathophysiology at a proteome and functional level remains to be determined. Protein networks and highly connected hub proteins for ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae offer a potential as a model system to inform future therapeutic innovation in ribosomopathies. In this context, we report a ribosome biogenesis protein-protein interaction network in S. cerevisiae, created with 1772 proteins and 22,185 physical interactions connecting them. Moreover, by network decomposition analysis, we determined the linear pathways between the transcription factors and target proteins with a view to drug repurposing. While considering only the paths containing the three C/D box proteins (Nop56, Nop58, and Nop1), the most frequently encountered proteins were Aft1, Htz1, Ssa1, Ssb1, Ssb2, Gcn5, Cka1, Tef1, Nop1, Cdc28, Act1, Krr1, Rpl8B, and Tor1, which were then identified as potential drug targets. For drug repurposing, these candidate proteins were further searched in the DrugBank to find other diseases associated with them, as well as the drugs used to treat these diseases. To support the computational results, an experimental study was conducted using in-house manufactured microfluidic bioreactor platform, while the effect of the drug temsirolimus, Tor1 inhibitor, on yeast cells was investigated by following Nop56 protein expression. In conclusion, these results inform the ways in which ribosomopathies and associated common complex human diseases materialize and how drug repurposing might accelerate therapeutic innovation through bioinformatic studies of yeast.
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- Ege Ertekin
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Dereli Eke E, Arga KY, Dikicioglu D, Eraslan S, Erkol E, Celik A, Kirdar B, Di Camillo B. Identification of Novel Components of Target-of-Rapamycin Signaling Pathway by Network-Based Multi-Omics Integrative Analysis. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2019; 23:274-284. [PMID: 30985253 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2019.0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a major signaling pathway and regulator of cell growth. TOR serves as a hub of many signaling routes, and is implicated in the pathophysiology of numerous human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and neurodegeneration. Therefore, elucidation of unknown components of TOR signaling that could serve as potential biomarkers and drug targets has a great clinical importance. In this study, our aim is to integrate transcriptomics, interactomics, and regulomics data in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a network-based multiomics approach to enlighten previously unidentified, potential components of TOR signaling. We constructed the TOR-signaling protein interaction network, which was used as a template to search for TOR-mediated rapamycin and caffeine signaling paths. We scored the paths passing from at least one component of TOR Complex 1 or 2 (TORC1/TORC2) using the co-expression levels of the genes in the transcriptome data of the cells grown in the presence of rapamycin or caffeine. The resultant network revealed seven hitherto unannotated proteins, namely, Atg14p, Rim20p, Ret2p, Spt21p, Ylr257wp, Ymr295cp, and Ygr017wp, as potential components of TOR-mediated rapamycin and caffeine signaling in yeast. Among these proteins, we suggest further deciphering of the role of Ylr257wp will be particularly informative in the future because it was the only protein whose removal from the constructed network hindered the signal transduction to the TORC1 effector kinase Npr1p. In conclusion, this study underlines the value of network-based multiomics integrative data analysis in discovering previously unidentified components of the signaling networks by revealing potential components of TOR signaling for future experimental validation.
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- Elif Dereli Eke
- 1 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 3 Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 4 Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 5 Diagnostic Centre for Genetic Diseases, Koc University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 6 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 6 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- 1 Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Dayan IE, Arga KY, Ulgen KO. Multiomics Approach to Novel Therapeutic Targets for Cancer and Aging-Related Diseases: Role of Sld7 in Yeast Aging Network. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 21:100-113. [DOI: 10.1089/omi.2016.0157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Irem E. Dayan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Karabekmez ME, Kirdar B. A novel topological centrality measure capturing biologically important proteins. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2016; 12:666-73. [PMID: 26699451 DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00732a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Topological centrality in protein interaction networks and its biological implications have widely been investigated in the past. In the present study, a novel metric of centrality-weighted sum of loads eigenvector centrality (WSL-EC)-based on graph spectra is defined and its performance in identifying topologically and biologically important nodes is comparatively investigated with common metrics of centrality in a human protein-protein interaction network. The metric can capture nodes from peripherals of the network differently from conventional eigenvector centrality. Different metrics were found to selectively identify hub sets that are significantly associated with different biological processes. The widely accepted metrics degree centrality, betweenness centrality, subgraph centrality and eigenvector centrality are subject to a bias towards super-hubs, whereas WSL-EC is not affected by the presence of super-hubs. WSL-EC outperforms other metrics of centrality in detecting biologically central nodes such as pathogen-interacting, cancer, ageing, HIV-1 or disease-related proteins and proteins involved in immune system processes and autoimmune diseases in the human interactome.
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- Bogazici University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Integration of multiple biological features yields high confidence human protein interactome. J Theor Biol 2016; 403:85-96. [PMID: 27196966 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2016] [Revised: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The biological function of a protein is usually determined by its physical interaction with other proteins. Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are identified through various experimental methods and are stored in curated databases. The noisiness of the existing PPI data is evident, and it is essential that a more reliable data is generated. Furthermore, the selection of a set of PPIs at different confidence levels might be necessary for many studies. Although different methodologies were introduced to evaluate the confidence scores for binary interactions, a highly reliable, almost complete PPI network of Homo sapiens is not proposed yet. The quality and coverage of human protein interactome need to be improved to be used in various disciplines, especially in biomedicine. In the present work, we propose an unsupervised statistical approach to assign confidence scores to PPIs of H. sapiens. To achieve this goal PPI data from six different databases were collected and a total of 295,288 non-redundant interactions between 15,950 proteins were acquired. The present scoring system included the context information that was assigned to PPIs derived from eight biological attributes. A high confidence network, which included 147,923 binary interactions between 13,213 proteins, had scores greater than the cutoff value of 0.80, for which sensitivity, specificity, and coverage were 94.5%, 80.9%, and 82.8%, respectively. We compared the present scoring method with others for evaluation. Reducing the noise inherent in experimental PPIs via our scoring scheme increased the accuracy significantly. As it was demonstrated through the assessment of process and cancer subnetworks, this study allows researchers to construct and analyze context-specific networks via valid PPI sets and one can easily achieve subnetworks around proteins of interest at a specified confidence level.
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The challenging task of studying and modeling complex dynamics of biological systems in order to describe various human diseases has gathered great interest in recent years. Major biological processes are mediated through protein interactions, hence there is a need to understand the chaotic network that forms these processes in pursuance of understanding human diseases. The applications of protein interaction networks to disease datasets allow the identification of genes and proteins associated with diseases, the study of network properties, identification of subnetworks, and network-based disease gene classification. Although various protein interaction network analysis strategies have been employed, grand challenges are still existing. Global understanding of protein interaction networks via integration of high-throughput functional genomics data from different levels will allow researchers to examine the disease pathways and identify strategies to control them. As a result, it seems likely that more personalized, more accurate and more rapid disease gene diagnostic techniques will be devised in the future, as well as novel strategies that are more personalized. This mini-review summarizes the current practice of protein interaction networks in medical research as well as challenges to be overcome.
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- Tuba Sevimoglu
- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Goztepe, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Goztepe, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey
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Kasavi C, Eraslan S, Arga KY, Oner ET, Kirdar B. A system based network approach to ethanol tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2014; 8:90. [PMID: 25103914 PMCID: PMC4236716 DOI: 10.1186/s12918-014-0090-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Background Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been widely used for bio-ethanol production and development of rational genetic engineering strategies leading both to the improvement of productivity and ethanol tolerance is very important for cost-effective bio-ethanol production. Studies on the identification of the genes that are up- or down-regulated in the presence of ethanol indicated that the genes may be involved to protect the cells against ethanol stress, but not necessarily required for ethanol tolerance. Results In the present study, a novel network based approach was developed to identify candidate genes involved in ethanol tolerance. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) network associated with ethanol tolerance (tETN) was reconstructed by integrating PPI data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. Modular analysis of the constructed networks revealed genes with no previously reported experimental evidence related to ethanol tolerance and resulted in the identification of 17 genes with previously unknown biological functions. We have randomly selected four of these genes and deletion strains of two genes (YDR307W and YHL042W) were found to exhibit improved tolerance to ethanol when compared to wild type strain. The genome-wide transcriptomic response of yeast cells to the deletions of YDR307W and YHL042W in the absence of ethanol revealed that the deletion of YDR307W and YHL042W genes resulted in the transcriptional re-programming of the metabolism resulting from a mis-perception of the nutritional environment. Yeast cells perceived an excess amount of glucose and a deficiency of methionine or sulfur in the absence of YDR307W and YHL042W, respectively, possibly resulting from a defect in the nutritional sensing and signaling or transport mechanisms. Mutations leading to an increase in ribosome biogenesis were found to be important for the improvement of ethanol tolerance. Modulations of chronological life span were also identified to contribute to ethanol tolerance in yeast. Conclusions The system based network approach developed allows the identification of novel gene targets for improved ethanol tolerance and supports the highly complex nature of ethanol tolerance in yeast.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Karagoz K, Arga KY. Assessment of high-confidence protein-protein interactome in yeast. Comput Biol Chem 2013; 45:1-8. [PMID: 23608186 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2013.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2013] [Revised: 03/15/2013] [Accepted: 03/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The identification of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and their networks is vitally important to systemically define and understand the roles of proteins in biological systems. In spite of development of numerous experimental systems to detect PPIs and diverse research on assessment of the quality of the obtained data, a consensus--highly reliable, almost complete--interactome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is not presented yet. In this work, we proposed an unsupervised statistical approach to create a high-confidence yeast PPI network. For this, we assembled databases of interacting protein pairs for yeast and obtained an extremely large PPI dataset which comprises of 135,154 non-redundant interactions between 6191 yeast proteins. A scoring scheme considering eight heterogeneous biological features resulted with a broad score distribution and a highly reliable network consisting of 29,046 physical interactions with scores higher than the threshold value of 0.85, for which sensitivity, specificity and coverage were 86%, 68%, and 72%, respectively. We evaluated our method by comparing it with other scoring schemes and showed that reducing the noise inherent in experimental PPIs via our scoring scheme further increased the accuracy. Current study is expected to increase the efficiency of the methodologies in biological research which make use of protein interaction networks.
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- Kubra Karagoz
- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Goztepe 34722, Istanbul, Turkey
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Borklu Yucel E, Ulgen KO. Assessment of crosstalks between the Snf1 kinase complex and sphingolipid metabolism in S. cerevisiae via systems biology approaches. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2013; 9:2914-31. [DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70248k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Borklu Yucel E, Ulgen KO. A network-based approach on elucidating the multi-faceted nature of chronological aging in S. cerevisiae. PLoS One 2011; 6:e29284. [PMID: 22216232 PMCID: PMC3244448 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2011] [Accepted: 11/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cellular mechanisms leading to aging and therefore increasing susceptibility to age-related diseases are a central topic of research since aging is the ultimate, yet not understood mechanism of the fate of a cell. Studies with model organisms have been conducted to ellucidate these mechanisms, and chronological aging of yeast has been extensively used as a model for oxidative stress and aging of postmitotic tissues in higher eukaryotes. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The chronological aging network of yeast was reconstructed by integrating protein-protein interaction data with gene ontology terms. The reconstructed network was then statistically "tuned" based on the betweenness centrality values of the nodes to compensate for the computer automated method. Both the originally reconstructed and tuned networks were subjected to topological and modular analyses. Finally, an ultimate "heart" network was obtained via pooling the step specific key proteins, which resulted from the decomposition of the linear paths depicting several signaling routes in the tuned network. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE The reconstructed networks are of scale-free and hierarchical nature, following a power law model with γ = 1.49. The results of modular and topological analyses verified that the tuning method was successful. The significantly enriched gene ontology terms of the modular analysis confirmed also that the multifactorial nature of chronological aging was captured by the tuned network. The interplay between various signaling pathways such as TOR, Akt/PKB and cAMP/Protein kinase A was summarized in the "heart" network originated from linear path analysis. The deletion of four genes, TCB3, SNA3, PST2 and YGR130C, was found to increase the chronological life span of yeast. The reconstructed networks can also give insight about the effect of other cellular machineries on chronological aging by targeting different signaling pathways in the linear path analysis, along with unraveling of novel proteins playing part in these pathways.
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- Esra Borklu Yucel
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Toku AE, Tekir SD, Özbayraktar FBK, Ülgen KÖ. Reconstruction and crosstalk of protein-protein interaction networks of Wnt and Hedgehog signaling in Drosophila melanogaster. Comput Biol Chem 2011; 35:282-92. [PMID: 22000799 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2011.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Revised: 06/10/2011] [Accepted: 07/03/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In the last few years, researchers have an intense interest in the evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways which have crucial roles during embryonic development. The most intriguing factor of this interest is that malfunctioning of these signaling pathways (Hedgehog, Notch, Wnt etc.) leads to several human diseases, especially to cancer. This study deals with the β-catenin dependent branch of Wnt signaling and the Hedgehog signaling pathways which offer potential targeting points for cancer drug development. The identification of all proteins functioning in these signaling networks is crucial for the efforts of preventing tumor formation. Here, through integration of protein-protein interaction data and Gene Ontology annotations, Wnt/β-catenin and Hedgehog signaling networks consisting of proteins that have statistically high probability of being biologically related to these signaling pathways were reconstructed in Drosophila melanogaster. Next, by the structural network analyses, the crucial components functioning in these pathways were identified. The proteins Arm, Frizzled receptors (Fz and Fz2), Arr, Apc, Axn, Ci and Ptc were detected as the key proteins in these networks. Futhermore, the hub protein Mer having tumor suppressor function may be proposed as a putative drug target for cancer and deserves further investigation via experimental methods. Finally, the crosstalk analysis between the reconstructed networks reveals that these two signaling networks crosstalk to each other.
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- Aysun Eren Toku
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 34342 Bebek-İstanbul, Turkey.
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Wang K, Hu F, Xu K, Cheng H, Jiang M, Feng R, Li J, Wen T. CASCADE_SCAN: mining signal transduction network from high-throughput data based on steepest descent method. BMC Bioinformatics 2011; 12:164. [PMID: 21575263 PMCID: PMC3120702 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2010] [Accepted: 05/17/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Signal transduction is an essential biological process involved in cell response to environment changes, by which extracellular signaling initiates intracellular signaling. Many computational methods have been generated in mining signal transduction networks with the increasing of high-throughput genomic and proteomic data. However, more effective means are still needed to understand the complex mechanisms of signaling pathways. RESULTS We propose a new approach, namely CASCADE_SCAN, for mining signal transduction networks from high-throughput data based on the steepest descent method using indirect protein-protein interactions (PPIs). This method is useful for actual biological application since the given proteins utilized are no longer confined to membrane receptors or transcription factors as in existing methods. The precision and recall values of CASCADE_SCAN are comparable with those of other existing methods. Moreover, functional enrichment analysis of the network components supported the reliability of the results. CONCLUSIONS CASCADE_SCAN is a more suitable method than existing methods for detecting underlying signaling pathways where the membrane receptors or transcription factors are unknown, providing significant insight into the mechanism of cellular signaling in growth, development and cancer. A new tool based on this method is freely available at http://www.genomescience.com.cn/CASCADE_SCAN/.
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- Kai Wang
- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences and Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Ates Ö, Oner ET, Arga KY. Genome-scale reconstruction of metabolic network for a halophilic extremophile, Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2011; 5:12. [PMID: 21251315 PMCID: PMC3034673 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2010] [Accepted: 01/21/2011] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chromohalobacter salexigens (formerly Halomonas elongata DSM 3043) is a halophilic extremophile with a very broad salinity range and is used as a model organism to elucidate prokaryotic osmoadaptation due to its strong euryhaline phenotype. RESULTS C. salexigens DSM 3043's metabolism was reconstructed based on genomic, biochemical and physiological information via a non-automated but iterative process. This manually-curated reconstruction accounts for 584 genes, 1386 reactions, and 1411 metabolites. By using flux balance analysis, the model was extensively validated against literature data on the C. salexigens phenotypic features, the transport and use of different substrates for growth as well as against experimental observations on the uptake and accumulation of industrially important organic osmolytes, ectoine, betaine, and its precursor choline, which play important roles in the adaptive response to osmotic stress. CONCLUSIONS This work presents the first comprehensive genome-scale metabolic model of a halophilic bacterium. Being a useful guide for identification and filling of knowledge gaps, the reconstructed metabolic network iOA584 will accelerate the research on halophilic bacteria towards application of systems biology approaches and design of metabolic engineering strategies.
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- Özlem Ates
- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, 34722, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, 34722, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, 34722, Istanbul, Turkey
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Reconstruction of protein-protein interaction network of insulin signaling in Homo sapiens. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010:690925. [PMID: 21197403 PMCID: PMC3010689 DOI: 10.1155/2010/690925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2010] [Revised: 07/22/2010] [Accepted: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the failure of synthesizing and secreting of insulin because of destroyed pancreatic β-cells. Type 2 diabetes, on the other hand, is described by the decreased synthesis and secretion of insulin because of the defect in pancreatic β-cells as well as by the failure of responding to insulin because of malfunctioning of insulin signaling. In order to understand the signaling mechanisms of responding to insulin, it is necessary to identify all components in the insulin signaling network. Here, an interaction network consisting of proteins that have statistically high probability of being biologically related to insulin signaling in Homo sapiens was reconstructed by integrating Gene Ontology (GO) annotations and interactome data. Furthermore, within this reconstructed network, interacting proteins which mediate the signal from insulin hormone to glucose transportation were identified using linear paths. The identification of key components functioning in insulin action on glucose metabolism is crucial for the efforts of preventing and treating type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Zhao XM, Wang RS, Chen L, Aihara K. Automatic modeling of signaling pathways by network flow model. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2009; 7:309-22. [PMID: 19340917 DOI: 10.1142/s0219720009004138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2008] [Revised: 11/13/2008] [Accepted: 11/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Signal transduction is an important process that controls cell proliferation, metabolism, differentiation, and so on. Effective computational models which unravel such a process by taking advantage of high-throughput genomic and proteomic data are highly demanded to understand the essential mechanisms underlying signal transduction. Since protein-protein interaction (PPI) plays an important role in signal transduction, in this paper, we present a novel method for modeling signaling pathways from PPI networks automatically. Given an undirected weighted protein interaction network, finding signaling pathways is treated as searching for optimal subnetworks according to some cost function. To cope with this optimization problem, a network flow model is proposed in this work to extract signaling pathways from protein interaction networks. In particular, the network flow model is formalized and solved as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model, which is simple in algorithm and efficient in computation. The numerical results on two known yeast MAPK signaling pathways demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- Xing-Ming Zhao
- Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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Biotech in Turkey: Paper watch. Biotechnol J 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/biot.200990066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Behre J, Schuster S. Modeling Signal Transduction in Enzyme Cascades with the Concept of Elementary Flux Modes. J Comput Biol 2009; 16:829-44. [DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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- Jörn Behre
- Faculty of Biology and Pharmaceutics, Section of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology and Pharmaceutics, Section of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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Graf A, Dragosits M, Gasser B, Mattanovich D. Yeast systems biotechnology for the production of heterologous proteins. FEMS Yeast Res 2009; 9:335-48. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00507.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Wu Z, Zhao X, Chen L. Identifying responsive functional modules from protein-protein interaction network. Mol Cells 2009; 27:271-7. [PMID: 19326072 DOI: 10.1007/s10059-009-0035-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Proteins interact with each other within a cell, and those interactions give rise to the biological function and dynamical behavior of cellular systems. Generally, the protein interactions are temporal, spatial, or condition dependent in a specific cell, where only a small part of interactions usually take place under certain conditions. Recently, although a large amount of protein interaction data have been collected by high-throughput technologies, the interactions are recorded or summarized under various or different conditions and therefore cannot be directly used to identify signaling pathways or active networks, which are believed to work in specific cells under specific conditions. However, protein interactions activated under specific conditions may give hints to the biological process underlying corresponding phenotypes. In particular, responsive functional modules consist of protein interactions activated under specific conditions can provide insight into the mechanism underlying biological systems, e.g. protein interaction subnetworks found for certain diseases rather than normal conditions may help to discover potential biomarkers. From computational viewpoint, identifying responsive functional modules can be formulated as an optimization problem. Therefore, efficient computational methods for extracting responsive functional modules are strongly demanded due to the NP-hard nature of such a combinatorial problem. In this review, we first report recent advances in development of computational methods for extracting responsive functional modules or active pathways from protein interaction network and microarray data. Then from computational aspect, we discuss remaining obstacles and perspectives for this attractive and challenging topic in the area of systems biology.
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- Zikai Wu
- Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Durmuş Tekir S, Yalçin Arga K, Ulgen KO. Drug targets for tumorigenesis: insights from structural analysis of EGFR signaling network. J Biomed Inform 2008; 42:228-36. [PMID: 18790083 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2007] [Revised: 07/15/2008] [Accepted: 08/17/2008] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Deciphering the complex network structure is crucial in drug target identification. This study presents a framework incorporating graph theoretic and network decomposition methods to analyze system-level properties of the comprehensive map of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling, which is a good candidate model system to study the general mechanisms of signal transduction. The graph theoretic analysis of the EGFR network indicates that it has small-world characteristics with scale-free topology. The employment of network decomposition analysis enlightened the system-level properties, such as network cross-talk, specific molecules in each pathway and participation of molecules in the network. Participating in a significant fraction of the fundamental paths connecting the ligands to the phenotypes, cofactor GTP and complex Gbeta/Ggamma were identified as "housekeeping" molecules, through which all pathways of EGFR network are cross-talking. c-Src-Shc complex is identified as important due to its role in all fundamental paths through tumorigenesis and being specific to this phenotype. Inhibitors of this complex may be good anti-cancer agents having very little or no effect on other phenotypes.
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- Saliha Durmuş Tekir
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 34342 Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey.
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Zhao XM, Wang RS, Chen L, Aihara K. Uncovering signal transduction networks from high-throughput data by integer linear programming. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:e48. [PMID: 18411207 PMCID: PMC2396433 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Signal transduction is an important process that transmits signals from the outside of a cell to the inside to mediate sophisticated biological responses. Effective computational models to unravel such a process by taking advantage of high-throughput genomic and proteomic data are needed to understand the essential mechanisms underlying the signaling pathways. In this article, we propose a novel method for uncovering signal transduction networks (STNs) by integrating protein interaction with gene expression data. Specifically, we formulate STN identification problem as an integer linear programming (ILP) model, which can be actually solved by a relaxed linear programming algorithm and is flexible for handling various prior information without any restriction on the network structures. The numerical results on yeast MAPK signaling pathways demonstrate that the proposed ILP model is able to uncover STNs or pathways in an efficient and accurate manner. In particular, the prediction results are found to be in high agreement with current biological knowledge and available information in literature. In addition, the proposed model is simple to be interpreted and easy to be implemented even for a large-scale system.
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- Xing-Ming Zhao
- ERATO Aihara Complexity Modelling Project, JST, Tokyo 151-0064, Japan
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Current awareness on yeast. Yeast 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.1457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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