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ArticlePLoS computational biology2016

m6A-Driver: Identifying Context-Specific mRNA m6A Methylation-Driven Gene Interaction Networks.

Song-Yao Zhang, Shao-Wu Zhang, Lian Liu, Jia Meng, Yufei Huang

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Song-Yao ZhangSchool of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Shao-Wu ZhangSchool of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Lian LiuSchool of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Jia MengDepartment of Biological Sciences, HRINU, SUERI, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3455-205X
Yufei HuangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America.
Northwestern Polytechnical University · CNThe University of Texas at San Antonio · USXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · CN

Funding

RCMI Center for Interdiscplinary Health Research CIHRG12MD007591 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI PERRY, GEORGE · 2012 to 2016
$10.4M
Collaborative Research:Graphical models for characterizing global RNA methylationR01GM113245 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO · PI HUANG, YUFEI · 2014 to 2016
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM113245NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007591
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the most prevalent mammalian mRNA epigenetic modification, N6-methyladenosine (m6A) has been shown to possess important post-transcriptional regulatory functions. However, the regulatory mechanisms and functional circuits of m6A are still largely elusive. To help unveil the regulatory circuitry mediated by mRNA m6A methylation, we develop here m6A-Driver, an algorithm for predicting m6A-driven genes and associated networks, whose functional interactions are likely to be actively modulated by m6A methylation under a specific condition. Specifically, m6A-Driver integrates the PPI network and the predicted differential m6A methylation sites from methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-Seq) data using a Random Walk with Restart (RWR) algorithm and then builds a consensus m6A-driven network of m6A-driven genes. To evaluate the performance, we applied m6A-Driver to build the context-specific m6A-driven networks for 4 known m6A (de)methylases, i.e., FTO, METTL3, METTL14 and WTAP. Our results suggest that m6A-Driver can robustly and efficiently identify m6A-driven genes that are functionally more enriched and associated with higher degree of differential expression than differential m6A methylated genes. Pathway analysis of the constructed context-specific m6A-driven gene networks further revealed the regulatory circuitry underlying the dynamic interplays between the methyltransferases and demethylase at the epitranscriptomic layer of gene regulation.

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Models, GeneticAdenosineAlgorithmsComputer SimulationDNA MethylationGene Regulatory NetworksRNASequence Analysis, RNAAdenosineN-methyladenosineRNA

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