scholarly journals Elucidating synergistic dependencies in lung adenocarcinoma by proteome-wide signaling-network analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh Bansal ◽  
Jing He ◽  
Michael Peyton ◽  
Manjunath Kaustagi ◽  
Archana Iyer ◽  
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SummarySignaling pathway models are largely based on the compilation of literature data from heterogeneous cellular contexts. Indeed, de novo reconstruction of signaling interactions from large-scale molecular profiling is still lagging, compared to similar efforts in transcriptional and protein-protein interaction networks. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel algorithm for the systematic inference of protein kinase pathways, and applied it to published mass spectrometry-based phosphotyrosine profile data from 250 lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) samples. The resulting network includes 43 TKs and 415 inferred, LUAD-specific substrates, which were validated at >60% accuracy by SILAC assays, including “novel’ substrates of the EGFR and c-MET TKs, which play a critical oncogenic role in lung cancer. This systematic, data-driven model supported drug response prediction on an individual sample basis, including accurate prediction and validation of synergistic EGFR and c-MET inhibitor activity in cells lacking mutations in either gene, thus contributing to current precision oncology efforts.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Seonghun Kim ◽  
Seockhun Bae ◽  
Yinhua Piao ◽  
Kyuri Jo

Genomic profiles of cancer patients such as gene expression have become a major source to predict responses to drugs in the era of personalized medicine. As large-scale drug screening data with cancer cell lines are available, a number of computational methods have been developed for drug response prediction. However, few methods incorporate both gene expression data and the biological network, which can harbor essential information about the underlying process of the drug response. We proposed an analysis framework called DrugGCN for prediction of Drug response using a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN). DrugGCN first generates a gene graph by combining a Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network and gene expression data with feature selection of drug-related genes, and the GCN model detects the local features such as subnetworks of genes that contribute to the drug response by localized filtering. We demonstrated the effectiveness of DrugGCN using biological data showing its high prediction accuracy among the competing methods.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Mateo ◽  
Miquel Duran-Frigola ◽  
Albert Gris-Oliver ◽  
Marta Palafox ◽  
Maurizio Scaltriti ◽  
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AbstractIdentification of actionable genomic vulnerabilities is the cornerstone of precision oncology. Based on a large-scale drug screening in patient derived-xenografts, we uncover connections between driver gene alterations, derive Driver Co-Occurrence (DCO) networks, and relate these to drug sensitivity. Our collection of 53 drug response predictors attained an average balanced accuracy of 58% in a cross-validation setting, which rose to a 66% for the subset of high-confidence predictions. Morevover, we experimentally validated 12 out of 14 de novo predictions in mice. Finally, we adapted our strategy to obtain drug-response models from patients’ progression free survival data. By revealing unexpected links between oncogenic alterations, our strategy can increase the clinical impact of genomic profiling.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chayaporn Suphavilai ◽  
Shumei Chia ◽  
Ankur Sharma ◽  
Lorna Tu ◽  
Rafael Peres Da Silva ◽  
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AbstractWhile understanding molecular heterogeneity across patients underpins precision oncology, there is increasing appreciation for taking intra-tumor heterogeneity into account. Based on large-scale analysis of cancer omics datasets, we highlight the importance of intra-tumor transcriptomic heterogeneity (ITTH) for predicting clinical outcomes. Leveraging single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) with a recommender system (CaDRReS-Sc), we show that heterogeneous gene-expression signatures can predict drug response with high accuracy (80%). Using patient-proximal cell lines, we established the validity of CaDRReS-Sc’s monotherapy (Pearson r>0.6) and combinatorial predictions targeting clone-specific vulnerabilities (>10% improvement). Applying CaDRReS-Sc to rapidly expanding scRNA-seq compendiums can serve as in silico screen to accelerate drug-repurposing studies. Availability: https://github.com/CSB5/CaDRReS-Sc.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (14) ◽  
pp. i501-i509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi ◽  
Olga Zolotareva ◽  
Colin C Collins ◽  
Martin Ester

Abstract Motivation Historically, gene expression has been shown to be the most informative data for drug response prediction. Recent evidence suggests that integrating additional omics can improve the prediction accuracy which raises the question of how to integrate the additional omics. Regardless of the integration strategy, clinical utility and translatability are crucial. Thus, we reasoned a multi-omics approach combined with clinical datasets would improve drug response prediction and clinical relevance. Results We propose MOLI, a multi-omics late integration method based on deep neural networks. MOLI takes somatic mutation, copy number aberration and gene expression data as input, and integrates them for drug response prediction. MOLI uses type-specific encoding sub-networks to learn features for each omics type, concatenates them into one representation and optimizes this representation via a combined cost function consisting of a triplet loss and a binary cross-entropy loss. The former makes the representations of responder samples more similar to each other and different from the non-responders, and the latter makes this representation predictive of the response values. We validate MOLI on in vitro and in vivo datasets for five chemotherapy agents and two targeted therapeutics. Compared to state-of-the-art single-omics and early integration multi-omics methods, MOLI achieves higher prediction accuracy in external validations. Moreover, a significant improvement in MOLI’s performance is observed for targeted drugs when training on a pan-drug input, i.e. using all the drugs with the same target compared to training only on drug-specific inputs. MOLI’s high predictive power suggests it may have utility in precision oncology. Availability and implementation https://github.com/hosseinshn/MOLI. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


PPAR Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Min Zhao ◽  
Xiaoyang Li ◽  
Yunxiang Zhang ◽  
Hongming Zhu ◽  
Zhaoqing Han ◽  
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Previous studies showed that low PPARG expression was associated with poor prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma (LA) with limited mechanisms identified. We first conducted a large-scale literature-based data mining to identify potential molecular pathways where PPARG could exert influence on the pathological development of LA. Then a mega-analysis using 13 independent LA expression datasets and a Pathway Enrichment Analysis (PEA) was conducted to study the gene expression levels and the functionalities of PPARG and the PPARG-driven triggers within the molecular pathways. Finally, a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was established to reveal the functional connection between PPARG and its driven molecules. We identified 25 PPARG-driven molecule triggers forming multiple LA-regulatory pathways. Mega-analysis using 13 LA datasets supported these pathways and confirmed the downregulation of PPARG in the case of LA (p=1.07e−05). Results from the PEA and PPI analysis suggested that PPARG might inhibit the development of LA through the regulation of tumor cell proliferation and transmission-related molecules, including an LA tumor cell suppressor MIR145. Our results suggested that increased expression of PPARG could drive multiple molecular triggers against the pathologic development and prognosis of LA, indicating PPARG as a valuable therapeutic target for LA treatment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitan Zhu ◽  
Thomas Brettin ◽  
Yvonne A. Evrard ◽  
Alexander Partin ◽  
Fangfang Xia ◽  
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Abstract Transfer learning, which transfers patterns learned on a source dataset to a related target dataset for constructing prediction models, has been shown effective in many applications. In this paper, we investigate whether transfer learning can be used to improve the performance of anti-cancer drug response prediction models. Previous transfer learning studies for drug response prediction focused on building models to predict the response of tumor cells to a specific drug treatment. We target the more challenging task of building general prediction models that can make predictions for both new tumor cells and new drugs. Uniquely, we investigate the power of transfer learning for three drug response prediction applications including drug repurposing, precision oncology, and new drug development, through different data partition schemes in cross-validation. We extend the classic transfer learning framework through ensemble and demonstrate its general utility with three representative prediction algorithms including a gradient boosting model and two deep neural networks. The ensemble transfer learning framework is tested on benchmark in vitro drug screening datasets. The results demonstrate that our framework broadly improves the prediction performance in all three drug response prediction applications with all three prediction algorithms.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca K Stöcker ◽  
Till Schäfer ◽  
Petra Mutzel ◽  
Johannes Köster ◽  
Nils Kriege ◽  
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Being able to quantify the similarity between two protein complexes is essential for numerous applications. Prominent examples are database searches for known complexes with a given query complex, comparison of the output of different protein complex prediction algorithms, or summarizing and clustering protein complexes, e.g., for visualization. While the corresponding problems have received much attention on single proteins and protein families, the question about how to model and compute similarity between protein complexes has not yet been systematically studied. Because protein complexes can be naturally modeled as graphs, in principle general graph similarity measures may be used, but these are often computationally hard to obtain and do not take typical properties of protein complexes into account. Here we propose a parametric family of similarity measures based on Weisfeiler-Lehman labeling. We evaluate it on simulated complexes of the extended human integrin adhesome network. Because the connectivity (graph topology) of real complexes is often unknown and hard to obtain experimentally, we use both known protein-protein interaction networks and known interdependencies (constraints) between interactions to simulate more realistic complexes than from interaction networks alone. We empirically show that the defined family of similarity measures is in good agreement with edit similarity, a similarity measure derived from graph edit distance, but can be much more efficiently computed. It can therefore be used in large-scale studies and simulations and serve as a basis for further refinements of modeling protein complex similarity.


2021 ◽  
pp. 109980042110214
Author(s):  
Charles A. Downs

Adenocarcinoma accounts for about 40% of all lung cancers. Histological studies indicate a loss of expression of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products (RAGE) in lung adenocarcinoma cells compared to neighboring non-malignant tissue. Gene silencing of RAGE in human lung adenocarcinoma cells was performed and then cells were subjected to LC-MS/MS ( n = 3, FDR < 1%). Differentially expressed proteins were analyzed using the PANTHER Classification System and STRING Interactome, identifying functions and protein-protein interaction networks. We observed expression of dominant-negative (DN−) RAGE, an isoform lacking the critical intracellular signaling tail observed in the full length (FL−) RAGE. Proteomic analysis suggests DN-RAGE likely plays a crucial role in cell polarity, metastases, and in cell-cell or cell-matrix complexes through focal adhesion or adherens junction formation. DN-RAGE may also regulate the expression of FL-RAGE and may provide a “switch” that could transition from a pro-inflammatory to a migratory cell as vimentin expression increased along with a reduction in cell polarity proteins. STRING interactome analysis identified seven protein–protein interaction networks involved in the regulation of gene expression, cell organization, cytoskeletal changes, sub-membrane plaque formation, as well as cytokinesis, cell shape, and motility. Suggesting expression of DN-RAGE may contribute to metastases and the development of advanced cancer.


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