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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Depression among HIV/AIDS-Infected Patients Attending ART Clinic at Jimma University Medical Center, Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia. PSYCHIATRY JOURNAL 2020; 2020:5414072. [PMID: 32832537 PMCID: PMC7428827 DOI: 10.1155/2020/5414072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Background HIV is a chronic life-threatening illness and, like other similar chronic and stigmatizing illnesses, can be stressful to manage. Depression is a common mental health problem that deteriorates the quality of life of people with HIV/AIDS and found to be a strong predictor for noncompliance to antiretroviral therapy treatment. Therefore, epidemiological evidence on the factors associated with depression among patients with HIV/AIDS can contribute towards effective and efficient preventive health care strategies for this population. Objectives To assess the prevalence and factors associated with depression among HIV/AIDS-infected patients attending ART clinic at Jimma University Medical Center, Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia, in 2018. Methods This study followed an institution-based cross-sectional quantitative study design. A simple random sampling method yielded 303 participants who were interviewed from April to May 2018, using a pretested questionnaire, followed by their card review. The SPSS version 23 was used for bivariate analysis which was used to find out the significance of association. Variables that showed association in bivariate analysis at p value < 0.25 were entered to multivariable logistic regressions to control for confounders, and the significance of association was determined by 95% confidence interval and p value < 0.05. Results The point prevalence of depression was 94 (31%). Variables like sex (AOR = 0.510 (95%CI = 0.264‐0.986)), marital status (AOR = 3.610 (95%CI = 1.649‐7.901)), opportunistic infection (AOR = 3.122 (95%CI = 1.700‐5.733)), and medication adherence (AOR = 0.470 (95%CI = 0.266‐0.831)) were significantly associated with depression. Conclusion and Recommendation. From the findings of this study, it is possible to conclude that depression was highly prevalent among people living with HIV/ADS. Sex, marital status, opportunistic infection, and medication adherence were found to be associated with depression and need attention from the health professional working in the ART clinic.
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Singh V, Singh G, Singh V. TulsiPIN: An Interologous Protein Interactome of Ocimum tenuiflorum. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:884-899. [PMID: 31789043 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Ocimum tenuiflorum, commonly known as holy basil or tulsi, is globally recognized for its multitude of medicinal properties. However, a comprehensive study revealing the complex interplay among its constituent proteins at subcellular level is still lacking. To bridge this gap, in this work, a genome-scale interologous protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, TulsiPIN, is developed using 36 template plants, which consists of 13 660 nodes and 327 409 binary interactions. A high confidence network, hc-TulsiPIN, consisting of 7719 nodes having 95 532 interactions is inferred using domain-domain interaction information along with interolog-based statistics, and its reliability is assessed using pathway enrichment, functional homogeneity, and protein colocalization of PPIs. Examination of topological features revealed that hc-TulsiPIN possesses conventional properties, like small-world, scale-free, and modular architecture. A total of 1625 vital proteins are predicted by statistically evaluating hc-TulsiPIN with two ensembles of corresponding random networks, each consisting of 10 000 realizations of Erdoős-Rényi and Barabási-Albert models. Also, numerous regulatory proteins like transcription factors, transcription regulators, and protein kinases are profiled. Using 36 guide genes participating in 9 secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathways, a subnetwork consisting of 171 proteins and 612 interactions was constructed, and 127 of these proteins could be successfully characterized. Detailed information of TulsiPIN is available at https://cuhpcbbtulsipin.shinyapps.io/tulsipin_v0/ .
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- Vikram Singh
- Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , Central University of Himahcal Pradesh , Dharamshala 176206 , India
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- Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , Central University of Himahcal Pradesh , Dharamshala 176206 , India
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- Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , Central University of Himahcal Pradesh , Dharamshala 176206 , India
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Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Gorohovski A, Tagore S, Sekar V, Vazquez M, Valencia A. ChiPPI: a novel method for mapping chimeric protein-protein interactions uncovers selection principles of protein fusion events in cancer. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:7094-7105. [PMID: 28549153 PMCID: PMC5499553 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 05/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Fusion proteins, comprising peptides deriving from the translation of two parental genes, are produced in cancer by chromosomal aberrations. The expressed fusion protein incorporates domains of both parental proteins. Using a methodology that treats discrete protein domains as binding sites for specific domains of interacting proteins, we have cataloged the protein interaction networks for 11 528 cancer fusions (ChiTaRS-3.1). Here, we present our novel method, chimeric protein–protein interactions (ChiPPI) that uses the domain–domain co-occurrence scores in order to identify preserved interactors of chimeric proteins. Mapping the influence of fusion proteins on cell metabolism and pathways reveals that ChiPPI networks often lose tumor suppressor proteins and gain oncoproteins. Furthermore, fusions often induce novel connections between non-interactors skewing interaction networks and signaling pathways. We compared fusion protein PPI networks in leukemia/lymphoma, sarcoma and solid tumors finding distinct enrichment patterns for each disease type. While certain pathways are enriched in all three diseases (Wnt, Notch and TGF β), there are distinct patterns for leukemia (EGFR signaling, DNA replication and CCKR signaling), for sarcoma (p53 pathway and CCKR signaling) and solid tumors (FGFR and EGFR signaling). Thus, the ChiPPI method represents a comprehensive tool for studying the anomaly of skewed cellular networks produced by fusion proteins in cancer.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan-University, Henrietta Szold 8, Safed 1311502, Israel
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), M.F.Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), M.F.Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), M.F.Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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Segura J, Sorzano COS, Cuenca-Alba J, Aloy P, Carazo JM. Using neighborhood cohesiveness to infer interactions between protein domains. Bioinformatics 2015; 31:2545-52. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Subramanian N, Torabi-Parizi P, Gottschalk RA, Germain RN, Dutta B. Network representations of immune system complexity. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2015; 7:13-38. [PMID: 25625853 PMCID: PMC4339634 DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The mammalian immune system is a dynamic multiscale system composed of a hierarchically organized set of molecular, cellular, and organismal networks that act in concert to promote effective host defense. These networks range from those involving gene regulatory and protein–protein interactions underlying intracellular signaling pathways and single‐cell responses to increasingly complex networks of in vivo cellular interaction, positioning, and migration that determine the overall immune response of an organism. Immunity is thus not the product of simple signaling events but rather nonlinear behaviors arising from dynamic, feedback‐regulated interactions among many components. One of the major goals of systems immunology is to quantitatively measure these complex multiscale spatial and temporal interactions, permitting development of computational models that can be used to predict responses to perturbation. Recent technological advances permit collection of comprehensive datasets at multiple molecular and cellular levels, while advances in network biology support representation of the relationships of components at each level as physical or functional interaction networks. The latter facilitate effective visualization of patterns and recognition of emergent properties arising from the many interactions of genes, molecules, and cells of the immune system. We illustrate the power of integrating ‘omics’ and network modeling approaches for unbiased reconstruction of signaling and transcriptional networks with a focus on applications involving the innate immune system. We further discuss future possibilities for reconstruction of increasingly complex cellular‐ and organism‐level networks and development of sophisticated computational tools for prediction of emergent immune behavior arising from the concerted action of these networks. WIREs Syst Biol Med 2015, 7:13–38. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1288 This article is categorized under:
Analytical and Computational Methods > Computational Methods Laboratory Methods and Technologies > Macromolecular Interactions, Methods
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- Naeha Subramanian
- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA; Laboratory of Systems Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Gillis J, Ballouz S, Pavlidis P. Bias tradeoffs in the creation and analysis of protein-protein interaction networks. J Proteomics 2014; 100:44-54. [PMID: 24480284 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2013] [Revised: 01/13/2014] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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UNLABELLED Networks constructed from aggregated protein-protein interaction data are commonplace in biology. But the studies these data are derived from were conducted with their own hypotheses and foci. Focusing on data from budding yeast present in BioGRID, we determine that many of the downstream signals present in network data are significantly impacted by biases in the original data. We determine the degree to which selection bias in favor of biologically interesting bait proteins goes down with study size, while we also find that promiscuity in prey contributes more substantially in larger studies. We analyze interaction studies over time with respect to data in the Gene Ontology and find that reproducibly observed interactions are less likely to favor multifunctional proteins. We find that strong alignment between co-expression and protein-protein interaction data occurs only for extreme co-expression values, and use this data to suggest candidates for targets likely to reveal novel biology in follow-up studies. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Protein-protein interaction data finds particularly heavy use in the interpretation of disease-causal variants. In principle, network data allows researchers to find novel commonalities among candidate genes. In this study, we detail several of the most salient biases contributing to aggregated protein-protein interaction databases. We find strong evidence for the role of selection and laboratory biases. Many of these effects contribute to the commonalities researchers find for disease genes. In order for characterization of disease genes and their interactions to not simply be an artifact of researcher preference, it is imperative to identify data biases explicitly. Based on this, we also suggest ways to move forward in producing candidates less influenced by prior knowledge. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Can Proteomics Fill the Gap Between Genomics and Phenotypes?
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- Jesse Gillis
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Woodbury, NY 11797, United States.
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Woodbury, NY 11797, United States.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Centre for High-Throughput Biology, University of British Columbia, 2185 East Mall., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Memišević V, Wallqvist A, Reifman J. Reconstituting protein interaction networks using parameter-dependent domain-domain interactions. BMC Bioinformatics 2013; 14:154. [PMID: 23651452 PMCID: PMC3660195 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2012] [Accepted: 04/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We can describe protein-protein interactions (PPIs) as sets of distinct domain-domain interactions (DDIs) that mediate the physical interactions between proteins. Experimental data confirm that DDIs are more consistent than their corresponding PPIs, lending support to the notion that analyses of DDIs may improve our understanding of PPIs and lead to further insights into cellular function, disease, and evolution. However, currently available experimental DDI data cover only a small fraction of all existing PPIs and, in the absence of structural data, determining which particular DDI mediates any given PPI is a challenge. RESULTS We present two contributions to the field of domain interaction analysis. First, we introduce a novel computational strategy to merge domain annotation data from multiple databases. We show that when we merged yeast domain annotations from six annotation databases we increased the average number of domains per protein from 1.05 to 2.44, bringing it closer to the estimated average value of 3. Second, we introduce a novel computational method, parameter-dependent DDI selection (PADDS), which, given a set of PPIs, extracts a small set of domain pairs that can reconstruct the original set of protein interactions, while attempting to minimize false positives. Based on a set of PPIs from multiple organisms, our method extracted 27% more experimentally detected DDIs than existing computational approaches. CONCLUSIONS We have provided a method to merge domain annotation data from multiple sources, ensuring large and consistent domain annotation for any given organism. Moreover, we provided a method to extract a small set of DDIs from the underlying set of PPIs and we showed that, in contrast to existing approaches, our method was not biased towards DDIs with low or high occurrence counts. Finally, we used these two methods to highlight the influence of the underlying annotation density on the characteristics of extracted DDIs. Although increased annotations greatly expanded the possible DDIs, the lack of knowledge of the true biological false positive interactions still prevents an unambiguous assignment of domain interactions responsible for all protein network interactions.Executable files and examples are given at: http://www.bhsai.org/downloads/padds/
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- Vesna Memišević
- Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA
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Yu X, Wallqvist A, Reifman J. Inferring high-confidence human protein-protein interactions. BMC Bioinformatics 2012; 13:79. [PMID: 22558947 PMCID: PMC3416704 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2011] [Accepted: 05/04/2012] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Background As numerous experimental factors drive the acquisition, identification, and interpretation of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), aggregated assemblies of human PPI data invariably contain experiment-dependent noise. Ascertaining the reliability of PPIs collected from these diverse studies and scoring them to infer high-confidence networks is a non-trivial task. Moreover, a large number of PPIs share the same number of reported occurrences, making it impossible to distinguish the reliability of these PPIs and rank-order them. For example, for the data analyzed here, we found that the majority (>83%) of currently available human PPIs have been reported only once. Results In this work, we proposed an unsupervised statistical approach to score a set of diverse, experimentally identified PPIs from nine primary databases to create subsets of high-confidence human PPI networks. We evaluated this ranking method by comparing it with other methods and assessing their ability to retrieve protein associations from a number of diverse and independent reference sets. These reference sets contain known biological data that are either directly or indirectly linked to interactions between proteins. We quantified the average effect of using ranked protein interaction data to retrieve this information and showed that, when compared to randomly ranked interaction data sets, the proposed method created a larger enrichment (~134%) than either ranking based on the hypergeometric test (~109%) or occurrence ranking (~46%). Conclusions From our evaluations, it was clear that ranked interactions were always of value because higher-ranked PPIs had a higher likelihood of retrieving high-confidence experimental data. Reducing the noise inherent in aggregated experimental PPIs via our ranking scheme further increased the accuracy and enrichment of PPIs derived from a number of biologically relevant data sets. These results suggest that using our high-confidence protein interactions at different levels of confidence will help clarify the topological and biological properties associated with human protein networks.
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- Xueping Yu
- Biotechnology High-Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. Detrick, MD 21702, USA
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Yu X, Ivanic J, Memisević V, Wallqvist A, Reifman J. Categorizing biases in high-confidence high-throughput protein-protein interaction data sets. Mol Cell Proteomics 2011; 10:M111.012500. [PMID: 21876202 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m111.012500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We characterized and evaluated the functional attributes of three yeast high-confidence protein-protein interaction data sets derived from affinity purification/mass spectrometry, protein-fragment complementation assay, and yeast two-hybrid experiments. The interacting proteins retrieved from these data sets formed distinct, partially overlapping sets with different protein-protein interaction characteristics. These differences were primarily a function of the deployed experimental technologies used to recover these interactions. This affected the total coverage of interactions and was especially evident in the recovery of interactions among different functional classes of proteins. We found that the interaction data obtained by the yeast two-hybrid method was the least biased toward any particular functional characterization. In contrast, interacting proteins in the affinity purification/mass spectrometry and protein-fragment complementation assay data sets were over- and under-represented among distinct and different functional categories. We delineated how these differences affected protein complex organization in the network of interactions, in particular for strongly interacting complexes (e.g. RNA and protein synthesis) versus weak and transient interacting complexes (e.g. protein transport). We quantified methodological differences in detecting protein interactions from larger protein complexes, in the correlation of protein abundance among interacting proteins, and in their connectivity of essential proteins. In the latter case, we showed that minimizing inherent methodology biases removed many of the ambiguous conclusions about protein essentiality and protein connectivity. We used these findings to rationalize how biological insights obtained by analyzing data sets originating from different sources sometimes do not agree or may even contradict each other. An important corollary of this work was that discrepancies in biological insights did not necessarily imply that one detection methodology was better or worse, but rather that, to a large extent, the insights reflected the methodological biases themselves. Consequently, interpreting the protein interaction data within their experimental or cellular context provided the best avenue for overcoming biases and inferring biological knowledge.
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- Xueping Yu
- Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. Detrick, MD 21702, USA
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