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Gong H, Wang H, Wang Y, Zhang S, Liu X, Che J, Wu S, Wu J, Sun X, Zhang S, Yau ST, Wu R. Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming. Phys Life Rev 2024; 50:228-251. [PMID: 39178631 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2024] [Revised: 07/31/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 08/26/2024]
Abstract
Forest management by thinning can mitigate the detrimental impact of increasing drought caused by global warming. Growing evidence shows that the soil microbiota can coordinate the dynamic relationship between forest functions and drought intensity, but how they function as a cohesive whole remains elusive. We outline a statistical topology model to chart the roadmap of how each microbe acts and interacts with every other microbe to shape the dynamic changes of microbial communities under forest management. To demonstrate its utility, we analyze a soil microbiota data collected from a two-way longitudinal factorial experiment involving three stand densities and three levels of rainfall over a growing season in artificial plantations of a forest tree - larix (Larix kaempferi). We reconstruct the most sophisticated soil microbiota networks that code maximally informative microbial interactions and trace their dynamic trajectories across time, space, and environmental signals. By integrating GLMY homology theory, we dissect the topological architecture of these so-called omnidirectional networks and identify key microbial interaction pathways that play a pivotal role in mediating the structure and function of soil microbial communities. The statistical topological model described provides a systems tool for studying how microbial community assembly alters its structure, function and evolution under climate change.
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- Huiying Gong
- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China; Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China; Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Ding Y, Bajpai AK, Wu F, Lu W, Xu L, Mao J, Li Q, Pan Q, Lu L, Wang X. 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia. Aging (Albany NY) 2024; 16:2340-2361. [PMID: 38277218 PMCID: PMC10911375 DOI: 10.18632/aging.205484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a highly heterogeneous malignant disease of the blood cell. The current therapies for AML are unsatisfactory and the molecular mechanisms underlying AML are unclear. 5-methylcytosine (m5C) is an important posttranscriptional modification of mRNA, and is involved in the regulation of mRNA stability, translation, and other aspects of RNA metabolism. However, based on our knowledge of published literature, the role of the m5C regulators has not been explored in AML till date. In this study, we clarified the expression and gene variants of m5C regulators in AML and found that most m5C regulators were differentially expressed and correlated with disease prognosis. We also found that the methylation status of certain m5C regulators (e.g., DNMT3A, DNMT3B) affects the survival of AML patients. Two m5C modification subtypes, and high- and low-risk subgroups identified based on the expression of m5C regulators showed significant differences in the prognosis as well as immune cell infiltration. In addition, most of the m5C regulators were found to be correlated with miRNA expression in AML, as well as IC50 values of many drugs. The miRNA and GSVA analysis were used to identify the different miRNAs and KEGG or hallmark pathways between high- and low-risk subgroups. We also built a prognostic model based on m5C regulators, which was validated by two GSE databases. To verify the reliability of our analysis and conclusions, qPCR was used to identify the expressions of m5C regulators between normal and AML. In summary, we comprehensively explored the molecular characteristics of m5C regulators and built a prognostic model in AML. We proposed new mechanistic insights into the role of m5C in multiple databases and clinical data, which may pave novel ways for the development of therapeutic strategies.
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- Yuhong Ding
- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics University of Tennessee Health Science Cente, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, The Branch Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics University of Tennessee Health Science Cente, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Hematology, The Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Jiangsu 226000, China
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Wang Y, Sang M, Feng L, Gragnoli C, Griffin C, Wu R. A pleiotropic-epistatic entangelement model of drug response. Drug Discov Today 2023; 28:103790. [PMID: 37758020 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2023.103790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2023] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Because drug response is multifactorial, graph models are uniquely powerful for comprehending its genetic architecture. We deconstruct drug response into many different and interdependent sub-traits, with each sub-trait controlled by multiple genes that act and interact in a complicated manner. The outcome of drug response is the consequence of multileveled intertwined interactions between pleiotropic effects and epistatic effects. Here, we propose a general statistical physics framework to chart the 3D geometric network that codes how epistasis pleiotropically influences a complete set of sub-traits to shape body-drug interactions. This model can dissect the topological architecture of epistatically induced pleiotropic networks (EiPN) and pleiotropically influenced epistatic networks (PiEN). We analyze and interpret the practical implications of the pleiotropic-epistatic entanglement model for pharmacogenomic studies.
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- Yu Wang
- Center for Computational Biology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226019, China
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- Fisheries Engineering Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing 1000141, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA; Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68124, USA; Molecular Biology Laboratory, Bios Biotech Multi-Diagnostic Health Center, Rome 00197, Italy
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- Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China; Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Wu S, Liu X, Dong A, Gragnoli C, Griffin C, Wu J, Yau ST, Wu R. The metabolomic physics of complex diseases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308496120. [PMID: 37812720 PMCID: PMC10589719 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308496120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Human diseases involve metabolic alterations. Metabolomic profiles have served as a vital biomarker for the early identification of high-risk individuals and disease prevention. However, current approaches can only characterize individual key metabolites, without taking into account the reality that complex diseases are multifactorial, dynamic, heterogeneous, and interdependent. Here, we leverage a statistical physics model to combine all metabolites into bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction networks and trace how the flow of information from one metabolite to the next causes changes in health state. Viewing a disease outcome as the consequence of complex interactions among its interconnected components (metabolites), we integrate concepts from ecosystem theory and evolutionary game theory to model how the health state-dependent alteration of a metabolite is shaped by its intrinsic properties and through extrinsic influences from its conspecifics. We code intrinsic contributions as nodes and extrinsic contributions as edges into quantitative networks and implement GLMY homology theory to analyze and interpret the topological change of health state from symbiosis to dysbiosis and vice versa. The application of this model to real data allows us to identify several hub metabolites and their interaction webs, which play a part in the formation of inflammatory bowel diseases. The findings by our model could provide important information on drug design to treat these diseases and beyond.
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- Shuang Wu
- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing100083, China
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- Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
- Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing101408, China
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- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing100083, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA17033
- Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE68124
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Bios Biotech Multi-Diagnostic Health Center, Rome00197, Italy
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- Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA16802
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- Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing101408, China
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- Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing101408, China
- Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing100084, China
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- Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing101408, China
- Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing100084, China
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Chen C, Shen B, Zhang L, Yu T, Wang M, Wu R. A Cartographic Tool to Predict Disease Risk-associated Pseudo-Dynamic Networks from Tissue-specific Gene Expression. Bio Protoc 2023; 13:e4583. [PMID: 36789091 PMCID: PMC9901473 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Understanding how genes are differentially expressed across tissues is key to reveal the etiology of human diseases. Genes are never expressed in isolation, but rather co-expressed in a community; thus, they co-act through intricate but well-orchestrated networks. However, existing approaches cannot coalesce the full properties of gene-gene communication and interactions into networks. In particular, the unavailability of dynamic gene expression data might impair the application of existing network models to unleash the complexity of human diseases. To address this limitation, we developed a statistical pipeline named DRDNetPro to visualize and trace how genes dynamically interact with each other across diverse tissues, to ascertain health risk from static expression data. This protocol contains detailed tutorials designed to learn a series of networks, with the illustration example from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. The proposed toolbox relies on the method developed in our published paper ( Chen et al., 2022 ), coding all genes into bidirectional, signed, weighted, and feedback looped networks, which will provide profound genomic information enabling medical doctors to design precise medicine. Graphical abstract Flowchart illustrating the use of DRDNetPro. The left panel contains the summarized pipeline of DRDNetPro and the right panel contains one pseudo-illustrative example. See the Equipment and Procedure sections for detailed explanations.
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- Chixiang Chen
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, College of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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Wang Q, Dong A, Zhao J, Wang C, Griffin C, Gragnoli C, Xue F, Wu R. Vaginal microbiota networks as a mechanistic predictor of aerobic vaginitis. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:998813. [PMID: 36338093 PMCID: PMC9631484 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.998813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 09/07/2024] Open
Abstract
Aerobic vaginitis (AV) is a complex vaginal dysbiosis that is thought to be caused by the micro-ecological change of the vaginal microbiota. While most studies have focused on how changes in the abundance of individual microbes are associated with the emergence of AV, we still do not have a complete mechanistic atlas of the microbe-AV link. Network modeling is central to understanding the structure and function of any microbial community assembly. By encapsulating the abundance of microbes as nodes and ecological interactions among microbes as edges, microbial networks can reveal how each microbe functions and how one microbe cooperate or compete with other microbes to mediate the dynamics of microbial communities. However, existing approaches can only estimate either the strength of microbe-microbe link or the direction of this link, failing to capture full topological characteristics of a network, especially from high-dimensional microbial data. We combine allometry scaling law and evolutionary game theory to derive a functional graph theory that can characterize bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction networks from any data domain. We apply our theory to characterize the causal interdependence between microbial interactions and AV. From functional networks arising from different functional modules, we find that, as the only favorable genus from Firmicutes among all identified genera, the role of Lactobacillus in maintaining vaginal microbial symbiosis is enabled by upregulation from other microbes, rather than through any intrinsic capacity. Among Lactobacillus species, the proportion of L. crispatus to L. iners is positively associated with more healthy acid vaginal ecosystems. In a less healthy alkaline ecosystem, L. crispatus establishes a contradictory relationship with other microbes, leading to population decrease relative to L. iners. We identify topological changes of vaginal microbiota networks when the menstrual cycle of women changes from the follicular to luteal phases. Our network tool provides a mechanistic approach to disentangle the internal workings of the microbiota assembly and predict its causal relationships with human diseases including AV.
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- Qian Wang
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Health and Eugenics, Tianjin, China
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- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Health and Eugenics, Tianjin, China
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- Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Bios Biotech Multi-Diagnostic Health Center, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Health and Eugenics, Tianjin, China
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States
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Cao X, Dong A, Kang G, Wang X, Duan L, Hou H, Zhao T, Wu S, Liu X, Huang H, Wu R. Modeling spatial interaction networks of the gut microbiota. Gut Microbes 2022; 14:2106103. [PMID: 35921525 PMCID: PMC9351588 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2106103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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How the gut microbiota is organized across space is postulated to influence microbial succession and its mutualistic relationships with the host. The lack of dynamic or perturbed abundance data poses considerable challenges for characterizing the spatial pattern of microbial interactions. We integrate allometric scaling theory, evolutionary game theory, and prey-predator theory into a unified framework under which quasi-dynamic microbial networks can be inferred from static abundance data. We illustrate that such networks can capture the full properties of microbial interactions, including causality, the sign of the causality, strength, and feedback loop, and are dynamically adaptive along spatial gradients, and context-specific, characterizing variability between individuals and within the same individual across time and space. We design and conduct a gut microbiota study to validate the model, characterizing key spatial determinants of the microbial differences between ulcerative colitis and healthy controls. Our model provides a sophisticated means of unraveling a complete atlas of how microbial interactions vary across space and quantifying causal relationships between such spatial variability and change in health state.
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- Xiaocang Cao
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China,Xiaocang Cao Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical UniversityGeneral Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, TianjinHebeiChina
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- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,Xinjuan Liu Department of Gastroenterology Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, BeijingHebeiChina
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China,He Huang School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, TianjinHebeiChina
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA,CONTACT Rongling Wu Center for Statistical Genetics, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, the Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA17033, USA
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Chen C, Shen B, Ma T, Wang M, Wu R. A statistical framework for recovering pseudo-dynamic networks from static data. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:2481-2487. [PMID: 35218338 PMCID: PMC9991900 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION The collection of temporal or perturbed data is often a prerequisite for reconstructing dynamic networks in most cases. However, these types of data are seldom available for genomic studies in medicine, thus significantly limiting the use of dynamic networks to characterize the biological principles underlying human health and diseases. RESULTS We proposed a statistical framework to recover disease risk-associated pseudo-dynamic networks (DRDNet) from steady-state data. We incorporated a varying coefficient model with multiple ordinary differential equations to learn a series of networks. We analyzed the publicly available Genotype-Tissue Expression data to construct networks associated with hypertension risk, and biological findings showed that key genes constituting these networks had pivotal and biologically relevant roles associated with the vascular system. We also provided the selection consistency of the proposed learning procedure and evaluated its utility through extensive simulations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION DRDNet is implemented in the R language, and the source codes are available at https://github.com/chencxxy28/DRDnet/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Chixiang Chen
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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A graph model of combination therapies. Drug Discov Today 2022; 27:1210-1217. [PMID: 35143962 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2022.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The simultaneous use of multiple medications causes drug-drug interactions (DDI) that impact therapeutic efficacy. Here, we argue that graph theory, in conjunction with game theory and ecosystem theory, can address this issue. We treat the coexistence of multiple drugs as a system in which DDI is modeled by game theory. We develop an ordinary differential equation model to characterize how the concentration of a drug changes as a result of its independent capacity and the dependent influence of other drugs through the metabolic response of the host. We coalesce all drugs into personalized and context-specific networks, which can reveal key DDI determinants of therapeutical efficacy. Our model can quantify drug synergy and antagonism and test the translational success of combination therapies to the clinic.
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A Single-Cell Omics Network Model of Cell Crosstalk during the Formation of Primordial Follicles. Cells 2022; 11:cells11030332. [PMID: 35159142 PMCID: PMC8834074 DOI: 10.3390/cells11030332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The fate of fetal germ cells (FGCs) in primordial follicles is largely determined by how they interact with the surrounding granulosa cells. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this interactive process remain poorly understood. Here, we develop a computational model to characterize how individual genes program and rewire cellular crosstalk across FGCs and somas, how gene regulatory networks mediate signaling pathways that functionally link these two cell types, and how different FGCs diversify and evolve through cooperation and competition during embryo development. We analyze single-cell RNA-seq data of human female embryos using the new model, identifying previously uncharacterized mechanisms behind follicle development. The majority of genes (70%) promote FGC–soma synergism, only with a small portion (4%) that incur antagonism; hub genes function reciprocally between the FGC network and soma network; and germ cells tend to cooperate between different stages of development but compete in the same stage within a developmental embryo. Our network model could serve as a powerful tool to unravel the genomic signatures that mediate folliculogenesis from single-cell omics data.
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The Genomic Physics of COVID-19 Pathogenesis and Spread. Cells 2021; 11:cells11010080. [PMID: 35011641 PMCID: PMC8750765 DOI: 10.3390/cells11010080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads mainly through close contact of infected persons, but the molecular mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis and transmission remain unknown. Here, we propose a statistical physics model to coalesce all molecular entities into a cohesive network in which the roadmap of how each entity mediates the disease can be characterized. We argue that the process of how a transmitter transforms the virus into a recipient constitutes a triad unit that propagates COVID-19 along reticulate paths. Intrinsically, person-to-person transmissibility may be mediated by how genes interact transversely across transmitter, recipient, and viral genomes. We integrate quantitative genetic theory into hypergraph theory to code the main effects of the three genomes as nodes, pairwise cross-genome epistasis as edges, and high-order cross-genome epistasis as hyperedges in a series of mobile hypergraphs. Charting a genome-wide atlas of horizontally epistatic hypergraphs can facilitate the systematic characterization of the community genetic mechanisms underlying COVID-19 spread. This atlas can typically help design effective containment and mitigation strategies and screen and triage those more susceptible persons and those asymptomatic carriers who are incubation virus transmitters.
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Wang H, Ye M, Fu Y, Dong A, Zhang M, Feng L, Zhu X, Bo W, Jiang L, Griffin CH, Liang D, Wu R. Modeling genome-wide by environment interactions through omnigenic interactome networks. Cell Rep 2021; 35:109114. [PMID: 33979624 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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How genes interact with the environment to shape phenotypic variation and evolution is a fundamental question intriguing to biologists from various fields. Existing linear models built on single genes are inadequate to reveal the complexity of genotype-environment (G-E) interactions. Here, we develop a conceptual model for mechanistically dissecting G-E interplay by integrating previously disconnected theories and methods. Under this integration, evolutionary game theory, developmental modularity theory, and a variable selection method allow us to reconstruct environment-induced, maximally informative, sparse, and casual multilayer genetic networks. We design and conduct two mapping experiments by using a desert-adapted tree species to validate the biological application of the model proposed. The model identifies previously uncharacterized molecular mechanisms that mediate trees' response to saline stress. Our model provides a tool to comprehend the genetic architecture of trait variation and evolution and trace the information flow of each gene toward phenotypes within omnigenic networks.
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- Haojie Wang
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Center for Statistical Genetics, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
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Sun L, Jiang L, Grant CN, Wang HG, Gragnoli C, Liu Z, Wu R. Computational Identification of Gene Networks as a Biomarker of Neuroblastoma Risk. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12082086. [PMID: 32731407 PMCID: PMC7465094 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12082086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Neuroblastoma is a common cancer in children, affected by a number of genes that interact with each other through intricate but coordinated networks. Traditional approaches can only reconstruct a single regulatory network that is topologically not informative enough to explain the complexity of neuroblastoma risk. We implemented and modified an advanced model for recovering informative, omnidirectional, dynamic, and personalized networks (idopNetworks) from static gene expression data for neuroblastoma risk. We analyzed 3439 immune genes of neuroblastoma for 217 high-risk patients and 30 low-risk patients by which to reconstruct large patient-specific idopNetworks. By converting these networks into risk-specific representations, we found that the shift in patients from a low to high risk or from a high to low risk might be due to the reciprocal change of hub regulators. By altering the directions of regulation exerted by these hubs, it may be possible to reduce a high risk to a low risk. Results from a holistic, systems-oriented paradigm through idopNetworks can potentially enable oncologists to experimentally identify the biomarkers of neuroblastoma and other cancers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lidan Sun
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; (L.S.); (L.J.)
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; (L.S.); (L.J.)
- Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17022, USA;
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Disease, Translational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19144, USA
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Bios Biotech Multi Diagnostic Health Center, 00197 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
- Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17022, USA;
- Correspondence: (Z.L.); (R.W.); Tel.: +1-717-531-0003 (Z.L.); +1-717-531-2037 (R.W.)
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;
- Correspondence: (Z.L.); (R.W.); Tel.: +1-717-531-0003 (Z.L.); +1-717-531-2037 (R.W.)
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