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ArticleBMC genomics2018

Transferring knowledge of bacterial protein interaction networks to predict pathogen targeted human genes and immune signaling pathways: a case study on M. tuberculosis.

Suyu Mei, Erik K Flemington, Kun Zhang

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Article in BMC genomics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Suyu MeiSoftware College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, 110034, China. meisygle@gmail.com.
Erik K FlemingtonDepartment of Pathology, Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA. erik@tulane.edu.
Kun ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, Bioinformatics facility of Xavier NIH RCMI Cancer Research Center, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, 70125, USA. kzhang@xula.edu.
Shenyang Normal University · CNTulane University · USXavier University of Louisiana · US

Funding

STABILITY' (symptomatic review during biologic therapy) Review in Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseP20GM103424 · NIGMS · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI Seetharama D Jois · 2012 to 2026
$57.4M
"Project 3" MHV68 IncRNA/miRNA interaction in latency and lympomagenesisP01CA214091 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI ROLF F RENNE · 2017 to 2026
$15.9M
Xavier's RCMI Cancer Research ProgramG12MD007595 · NIMHD · XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI D'AMOUR, GENE, WANG, GUANGDI · 2012 to 2018
$15.7M
Epstein Barr virus antisense transcriptionR01AI106676 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI FLEMINGTON, ERIK K · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Intercellular communication in Epstein Barr virus reactivationR01AI101046 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI FLEMINGTON, ERIK K · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA214091NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101046NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106676NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103424NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007595
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Abstract

backgroundBacterial invasive infection and host immune response is fundamental to the understanding of pathogen pathogenesis and the discovery of effective therapeutic drugs. However, there are very few experimental studies on the signaling cross-talks between bacteria and human host to date.

methodsIn this work, taking M. tuberculosis H37Rv (MTB) that is co-evolving with its human host as an example, we propose a general computational framework that exploits the known bacterial pathogen protein interaction networks in STRING database to predict pathogen-host protein interactions and their signaling cross-talks. In this framework, significant interlogs are derived from the known pathogen protein interaction networks to train a predictive l

resultsThe computational results show that the proposed method achieves excellent performance of cross validation as well as low predicted positive rates on the less significant interlogs and non-interlogs, indicating a low risk of false discovery. We further conduct gene ontology (GO) and pathway enrichment analyses of the predicted pathogen-host protein interaction networks, which potentially provides insights into the machinery that M. tuberculosis H37Rv targets human genes and signaling pathways. In addition, we analyse the pathogen-host protein interactions related to drug resistance, inhibition of which potentially provides an alternative solution to M. tuberculosis H37Rv drug resistance.

conclusionsThe proposed machine learning framework has been verified effective for predicting bacteria-host protein interactions via known bacterial protein interaction networks. For a vast majority of bacterial pathogens that lacks experimental studies of bacteria-host protein interactions, this framework is supposed to achieve a general-purpose applicability. The predicted protein interaction networks between M. tuberculosis H37Rv and Homo sapiens, provided in the Additional files, promise to gain applications in the two fields: (1) providing an alternative solution to drug resistance; (2) revealing the patterns that M. tuberculosis H37Rv genes target human immune signaling pathways.

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Area Under CurveBacterial ProteinsDatabases, GeneticDrug Resistance, BacterialGene OntologyHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmune SystemLogistic ModelsMycobacterium tuberculosisProtein Interaction MapsROC CurveSignal TransductionTuberculosisBacterial Proteinsl2-regularized logistic regressionPathogen-host coevolutionPathogen-host protein interaction networksSignaling pathwaysTransfer learning

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