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ArticleComputers in biology and medicine2022

Uncovering the dynamic effects of DEX treatment on lung cancer by integrating bioinformatic inference and multiscale modeling of scRNA-seq and proteomics data.

Minghan Chen, Chunrui Xu, Ziang Xu, Wei He, Haorui Zhang, Jing Su, Qianqian Song

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Article in Computers in biology and medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Minghan ChenDepartment of Computer Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Chunrui XuGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Ziang XuDepartment of Computer Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Wei HeGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Haorui ZhangDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Jing SuDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Qianqian SongCenter for Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA. Electronic address: qsong@wakehealth.edu.
Wake Forest University · USVirginia Tech · USAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · USIndiana University School of Medicine

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis ProgramP30CA082709 · NCI · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI Jun Wan · 1999 to 2026
$59.3M
Tumor Tissue CoreP30CA012197 · NCI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Ruben A. Mesa · 1985 to 2026
$55.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA012197NCI NIH HHS P30 CA082709
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death, with a five-year survival rate of 18%. It is a priority for us to understand the underlying mechanisms affecting lung cancer therapeutics' implementation and effectiveness. In this study, we combine the power of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology to comprehensively uncover functional and signaling pathways of drug treatment using bioinformatics inference and multiscale modeling of both scRNA-seq data and proteomics data. Based on a time series of lung adenocarcinoma derived A549 cells after DEX treatment, we first identified the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in those lung cancer cells. Through the interrogation of regulatory network of those DEGs, we identified key hub genes including TGFβ, MYC, and SMAD3 varied underlie DEX treatment. Further gene set enrichment analysis revealed the TGFβ signaling pathway as the top enriched term. Those genes involved in the TGFβ pathway and their crosstalk with the ERBB pathway presented a strong survival prognosis in clinical lung cancer samples. With the basis of biological validation and literature-based curation, a multiscale model of tumor regulation centered on both TGFβ-induced and ERBB-amplified signaling pathways was developed to characterize the dynamic effects of DEX therapy on lung cancer cells. Our simulation results were well matched to available data of SMAD2, FOXO3, TGFβ1, and TGFβR1 over the time course. Moreover, we provided predictions of different doses to illustrate the trend and therapeutic potential of DEX treatment. The innovative and cross-disciplinary approach can be further applied to other computational studies in tumorigenesis and oncotherapy. We released the approach as a user-friendly tool named BIMM (Bioinformatic Inference and Multiscale Modeling), with all the key features available at https://github.com/chenm19/BIMM.

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Computational BiologyLung NeoplasmsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Regulatory NetworksHumansProteomicsSingle-Cell AnalysisTransforming Growth Factor betaTransforming Growth Factor betaBioinformatics inferenceMulti-modal omics dataMultiscale modelingSingle-cell RNA-seq

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