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Interspecies protein-protein interaction network construction for characterization of host-pathogen interactions: a Candida albicans-zebrafish interaction study

Authors
Wang, Y.C., Lin, C., Chuang, M.T., Hsieh, W.P., Lan, C.Y., Chuang, Y.J., and Chen, B.S.
ID
ZDB-PUB-130903-48
Date
2013
Source
BMC systems biology   7: 79 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Chuang, Yung-Jen
Keywords
computational systems biology, network construction, host-pathogen interaction, protein-protein interaction network, infection, multivariate dynamic modeling, redox
Datasets
GEO:GSE32118, GEO:GSE32119
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Candida albicans/metabolism
  • Candida albicans/physiology*
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions*
  • Intracellular Space/metabolism
  • Intracellular Space/microbiology
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Protein Interaction Mapping/methods*
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
  • Zebrafish/microbiology*
PubMed
23947337 Full text @ BMC Syst. Biol.
Abstract

Background

Despite clinical research and development in the last decades, infectious diseases remain a top global problem in public health today, being responsible for millions of morbidities and mortalities each year. Therefore, many studies have sought to investigate host-pathogen interactions from various viewpoints in attempts to understand pathogenic and defensive mechanisms, which could help control pathogenic infections. However, most of these efforts have focused predominately on the host or the pathogen individually rather than on a simultaneous analysis of both interaction partners.

Results

In this study, with the help of simultaneously quantified time-course Candida albicans-zebrafish interaction transcriptomics and other omics data, a computational framework was developed to construct the interspecies protein-protein interaction (PPI) network for C. albicans-zebrafish interactions based on the inference of ortholog-based PPIs and the dynamic modeling of regulatory responses. The identified C. albicans-zebrafish interspecies PPI network highlights the association between C. albicans pathogenesis and the zebrafish redox process, indicating that redox status is critical in the battle between the host and pathogen.

Conclusions

Advancing from the single-species network construction method, the interspecies network construction approach allows further characterization and elucidation of the host-pathogen interactions. With continued accumulation of interspecies transcriptomics data, the proposed method could be used to explore progressive network rewiring over time, which could benefit the development of network medicine for infectious diseases.

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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping