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ArticleBMC systems biology2018

Identification of active signaling pathways by integrating gene expression and protein interaction data.

Md Humayun Kabir, Ralph Patrick, Joshua W K Ho, Michael D O'Connor

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Md Humayun KabirSchool of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
Ralph PatrickVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
Joshua W K HoVictor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia. jwkho@hku.hk.
Michael D O'ConnorSchool of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia. m.oconnor@westernsydney.edu.au.

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Abstract

backgroundSignaling pathways are the key biological mechanisms that transduce extracellular signals to affect transcription factor mediated gene regulation within cells. A number of computational methods have been developed to identify the topological structure of a specific signaling pathway using protein-protein interaction data, but they are not designed for identifying active signaling pathways in an unbiased manner. On the other hand, there are statistical methods based on gene sets or pathway data that can prioritize likely active signaling pathways, but they do not make full use of active pathway structure that link receptor, kinases and downstream transcription factors.

resultsHere, we present a method to simultaneously predict the set of active signaling pathways, together with their pathway structure, by integrating protein-protein interaction network and gene expression data. We evaluated the capacity for our method to predict active signaling pathways for dental epithelial cells, ocular lens epithelial cells, human pluripotent stem cell-derived lens epithelial cells, and lens fiber cells. This analysis showed our approach could identify all the known active pathways that are associated with tooth formation and lens development.

conclusionsThe results suggest that SPAGI can be a useful approach to identify the potential active signaling pathways given a gene expression profile. Our method is implemented as an open source R package, available via https://github.com/VCCRI/SPAGI/ .

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Protein Interaction MapsTranscriptomeAnimalsComputational BiologyGene OntologyGene Regulatory NetworksHumansLens, CrystallineMiceSignal TransductionToothDental epithelial cellsGene expressionLens epithelial cellsLens fiber cellsPluripotent stem cellsProtein-protein interactionROR1+ cellsSignaling pathway

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PMID30598083
PMCPMC6311899

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