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1. Computational drug discovery approaches identify mebendazole as a candidate treatment for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

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Philip W. Brownjohn, Azedine Zoufir, Daniel J. O’Donovan, Saatviga Sudhahar, Alexander Syme, Rosemary Huckvale, John R. Porter, Hester Bange, Jane Brennan, and Neil T. Thompson

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autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, rare diseases, gene expression profiling, machine learning, drug discovery, drug repositioning, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, RM1-950
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Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by numerous renal cysts, the progressive expansion of which can impact kidney function and lead eventually to renal failure. Tolvaptan is the only disease-modifying drug approved for the treatment of ADPKD, however its poor side effect and safety profile necessitates the need for the development of new therapeutics in this area. Using a combination of transcriptomic and machine learning computational drug discovery tools, we predicted that a number of existing drugs could have utility in the treatment of ADPKD, and subsequently validated several of these drug predictions in established models of disease. We determined that the anthelmintic mebendazole was a potent anti-cystic agent in human cellular and in vivo models of ADPKD, and is likely acting through the inhibition of microtubule polymerisation and protein kinase activity. These findings demonstrate the utility of combining computational approaches to identify and understand potential new treatments for traditionally underserved rare diseases.

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2024
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2. A systems genomics approach to uncover patient-specific pathogenic pathways and proteins in ulcerative colitis

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Johanne Brooks-Warburton, Dezso Modos, Padhmanand Sudhakar, Matthew Madgwick, John P. Thomas, Balazs Bohar, David Fazekas, Azedine Zoufir, Orsolya Kapuy, Mate Szalay-Beko, Bram Verstockt, Lindsay J. Hall, Alastair Watson, Mark Tremelling, Miles Parkes, Severine Vermeire, Andreas Bender, Simon R. Carding, and Tamas Korcsmaros

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Science
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) affect cellular regulatory networks, and SNP co-occurrences contribute to disease pathogenesis in ulcerative colitis (UC). Here the authors introduce iSNP, a precision medicine pipeline that combines genomics and network biology approaches to uncover patient specific pathways affected in complex diseases.

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2022
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3. Computational drug discovery approaches identify mebendazole as a candidate treatment for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

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Brownjohn, Philip W., Zoufir, Azedine, O'Donovan, Daniel J., Sudhahar, Saatviga, Syme, Alexander, Huckvale, Rosemary, Porter, John R., Bange, Hester, Brennan, Jane, and Thompson, Neil T.

Subjects
POLYCYSTIC kidney disease, DRUG discovery, CYSTIC kidney disease, TUBULINS
Abstract

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by numerous renal cysts, the progressive expansion of which can impact kidney function and lead eventually to renal failure. Tolvaptan is the only disease-modifying drug approved for the treatment of ADPKD, however its poor side effect and safety profile necessitates the need for the development of new therapeutics in this area. Using a combination of transcriptomic and machine learning computational drug discovery tools, we predicted that a number of existing drugs could have utility in the treatment of ADPKD, and subsequently validated several of these drug predictions in established models of disease. We determined that the anthelmintic mebendazole was a potent anti-cystic agent in human cellular and in vivo models of ADPKD, and is likely acting through the inhibition of microtubule polymerisation and protein kinase activity. These findings demonstrate the utility of combining computational approaches to identify and understand potential new treatments for traditionally underserved rare diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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4. Computer-aided design of multi-target ligands at A1R, A2AR and PDE10A, key proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

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Leen Kalash, Cristina Val, Jhonny Azuaje, María I. Loza, Fredrik Svensson, Azedine Zoufir, Lewis Mervin, Graham Ladds, José Brea, Robert Glen, Eddy Sotelo, and Andreas Bender

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Multi-target ligands, Adenosine receptor ligands, PDE10A inhibitors, Target prediction, Drug design, Docking, Information technology, T58.5-58.64, Chemistry, QD1-999
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Abstract Compounds designed to display polypharmacology may have utility in treating complex diseases, where activity at multiple targets is required to produce a clinical effect. In particular, suitable compounds may be useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases by promoting neuronal survival in a synergistic manner via their multi-target activity at the adenosine A1 and A2A receptors (A1R and A2AR) and phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A), which modulate intracellular cAMP levels. Hence, in this work we describe a computational method for the design of synthetically feasible ligands that bind to A1 and A2A receptors and inhibit phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A), involving a retrosynthetic approach employing in silico target prediction and docking, which may be generally applicable to multi-target compound design at several target classes. This approach has identified 2-aminopyridine-3-carbonitriles as the first multi-target ligands at A1R, A2AR and PDE10A, by showing agreement between the ligand and structure based predictions at these targets. The series were synthesized via an efficient one-pot scheme and validated pharmacologically as A1R/A2AR–PDE10A ligands, with IC50 values of 2.4–10.0 μM at PDE10A and Ki values of 34–294 nM at A1R and/or A2AR. Furthermore, selectivity profiling of the synthesized 2-amino-pyridin-3-carbonitriles against other subtypes of both protein families showed that the multi-target ligand 8 exhibited a minimum of twofold selectivity over all tested off-targets. In addition, both compounds 8 and 16 exhibited the desired multi-target profile, which could be considered for further functional efficacy assessment, analog modification for the improvement of selectivity towards A1R, A2AR and PDE10A collectively, and evaluation of their potential synergy in modulating cAMP levels.

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2017
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5. Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen

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Menden M, Wang D, Mason M, Szalai B, Bulusu K, Guan Y, Yu T, Kang J, Jeon M, Wolfinger R, Nguyen T, Zaslavskiy M, Jang I, Ghazoui Z, Ahsen M, Vogel R, Neto E, Norman T, Tang E, Garnett M, Di Veroli G, Fawell S, Stolovitzky G, Guinney J, Dry J, Saez-Rodriguez J, Abante J, Abecassis B, Aben N, Aghamirzaie D, Aittokallio T, Akhtari F, Al-lazikani B, Alam T, Allam A, Allen C, de Almeida M, Altarawy D, Alves V, Amadoz A, Anchang B, Antolin A, Ash J, Aznar V, Ba-alawi W, Bagheri M, Bajic V, Ball G, Ballester P, Baptista D, Bare C, Bateson M, Bender A, Bertrand D, Wijayawardena B, Boroevich K, Bosdriesz E, Bougouffa S, Bounova G, Brouwer T, Bryant B, Calaza M, Calderone A, Calza S, Capuzzi S, Carbonell-Caballero J, Carlin D, Carter H, Castagnoli L, Celebi R, Cesareni G, Chang H, Chen G, Chen H, Cheng L, Chernomoretz A, Chicco D, Cho K, Cho S, Choi D, Choi J, Choi K, Choi M, De Cock M, Coker E, Cortes-Ciriano I, Cserzo M, Cubuk C, Curtis C, Van Daele D, Dang C, Dijkstra T, Dopazo J, Draghici S, Drosou A, Dumontier M, Ehrhart F, Eid F, ElHefnawi M, Elmarakeby H, van Engelen B, Engin H, de Esch I, Evelo C, Falcao A, Farag S, Fernandez-Lozano C, Fisch K, Flobak A, Fornari C, Foroushani A, Fotso D, Fourches D, Friend S, Frigessi A, Gao F, Gao X, Gerold J, Gestraud P, Ghosh S, Gillberg J, Godoy-Lorite A, Godynyuk L, Godzik A, Goldenberg A, Gomez-Cabrero D, Gonen M, de Graaf C, Gray H, Grechkin M, Guimera R, Guney E, Haibe-Kains B, Han Y, Hase T, He D, He L, Heath L, Hellton K, Helmer-Citterich M, Hidalgo M, Hidru D, Hill S, Hochreiter S, Hong S, Hovig E, Hsueh Y, Hu Z, Huang J, Huang R, Hunyady L, Hwang J, Hwang T, Hwang W, Hwang Y, Isayev O, Walk O, Jack J, Jahandideh S, Ji J, Jo Y, Kamola P, Kanev G, Karacosta L, Karimi M, Kaski S, Kazanov M, Khamis A, Khan S, Kiani N, Kim A, Kim J, Kim K, Kim S, Kim Y, Kirk P, Kitano H, Klambauer G, Knowles D, Ko M, Kohn-Luque A, Kooistra A, Kuenemann M, Kuiper M, Kurz C, Kwon M, van Laarhoven T, Laegreid A, Lederer S, Lee H, Lee J, Lee Y, Leppaho E, Lewis R, Li J, Li L, Liley J, Lim W, Lin C, Liu Y, Lopez Y, Low J, Lysenko A, Machado D, Madhukar N, De Maeyer D, Malpartida A, Mamitsuka H, Marabita F, Marchal K, Marttinen P, Mason D, Mazaheri A, Mehmood A, Mehreen A, Michaut M, Miller R, Mitsopoulos C, Modos D, Van Moerbeke M, Moo K, Motsinger-Reif A, Movva R, Muraru S, Muratov E, Mushthofa M, Nagarajan N, Nakken S, Nath A, Neuvial P, Newton R, Ning Z, De Niz C, Oliva B, Olsen C, Palmeri A, Panesar B, Papadopoulos S, Park J, Park S, Pawitan Y, Peluso D, Pendyala S, Peng J, Perfetto L, Pirro S, Plevritis S, Politi R, Poon H, Porta E, Prellner I, Preuer K, Pujana M, Ramnarine R, Reid J, Reyal F, Richardson S, Ricketts C, Rieswijk L, Rocha M, Rodriguez-Gonzalvez C, Roell K, Rotroff D, de Ruiter J, Rukawa P, Sadacca B, Safikhani Z, Safitri F, Sales-Pardo M, Sauer S, Schlichting M, Seoane J, Serra J, Shang M, Sharma A, Sharma H, Shen Y, Shiga M, Shin M, Shkedy Z, Shopsowitz K, Sinai S, Skola D, Smirnov P, Soerensen I, Soerensen P, Song J, Song S, Soufan O, Spitzmueller A, Steipe B, Suphavilai C, Tamayo S, Tamborero D, Tang J, Tanoli Z, Tarres-Deulofeu M, Tegner J, Thommesen L, Tonekaboni S, Tran H, De Troyer E, Truong A, Tsunoda T, Turu G, Tzeng G, Verbeke L, Videla S, Vis D, Voronkov A, Votis K, Wang A, Wang H, Wang P, Wang S, Wang W, Wang X, Wennerberg K, Wernisch L, Wessels L, van Westen G, Westerman B, White S, Willighagen E, Wurdinger T, Xie L, Xie S, Xu H, Yadav B, Yau C, Yeerna H, Yin J, Yu M, Yun S, Zakharov A, Zamichos A, Zanin M, Zeng L, Zenil H, Zhang F, Zhang P, Zhang W, Zhao H, Zhao L, Zheng W, Zoufir A, Zucknick M, AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combinatio, Ege Üniversitesi, Gönen, Mehmet (ORCID 0000-0002-2483-075X & YÖK ID 237468), Menden, Michael P., Wang, Dennis, Mason, Mike J., Szalai, Bence, Bulusu, Krishna C., Guan, Yuanfang, Yu, Thomas, Kang, Jaewoo, Jeon, Minji, Wolfinger, Russ, Nguyen, Tin, Zaslavskiy, Mikhail, Jang, In Sock, Ghazoui, Zara, Ahsen, Mehmet Eren, Vogel, Robert, Neto, Elias Chaibub, Norman, Thea, Tang, Eric K. Y., Garnett, Mathew J., Di Veroli, Giovanni Y., Fawell, Stephen, Stolovitzky, Gustavo, Guinney, Justin, Dry, Jonathan R., Saez-Rodriguez, Julio, Abante, Jordi, Abecassis, Barbara Schmitz, Aben, Nanne, Aghamirzaie, Delasa, Aittokallio, Tero, Akhtari, Farida S., Al-lazikani, Bissan, Alam, Tanvir, Allam, Amin, Allen, Chad, de Almeida, Mariana Pelicano, Altarawy, Doaa, Alves, Vinicius, Amadoz, Alicia, Anchang, Benedict, Antolin, Albert A., Ash, Jeremy R., Romeo Aznar, Victoria, Ba-alawi, Wail, Bagheri, Moeen, Bajic, Vladimir, Ball, Gordon, Ballester, Pedro J., Baptista, Delora, Bare, Christopher, Bateson, Mathilde, Bender, Andreas, Bertrand, Denis, Wijayawardena, Bhagya, Boroevich, Keith A., Bosdriesz, Evert, Bougouffa, Salim, Bounova, Gergana, Brouwer, Thomas, Bryant, Barbara, Calaza, Manuel, Calderone, Alberto, Calza, Stefano, Capuzzi, Stephen, Carbonell-Caballero, Jose, Carlin, Daniel, Carter, Hannah, Castagnoli, Luisa, Celebi, Remzi, Cesareni, Gianni, Chang, Hyeokyoon, Chen, Guocai, Chen, Haoran, Chen, Huiyuan, Cheng, Lijun, Chernomoretz, Ariel, Chicco, Davide, Cho, Kwang-Hyun, Cho, Sunghwan, Choi, Daeseon, Choi, Jaejoon, Choi, Kwanghun, Choi, Minsoo, De Cock, Martine, Coker, Elizabeth, Cortes-Ciriano, Isidro, Cserzo, Miklos, Cubuk, Cankut, Curtis, Christina, Van Daele, Dries, Dang, Cuong C., Dijkstra, Tjeerd, Dopazo, Joaquin, Draghici, Sorin, Drosou, Anastasios, Dumontier, Michel, Ehrhart, Friederike, Eid, Fatma-Elzahraa, ElHefnawi, Mahmoud, Elmarakeby, Haitham, van Engelen, Bo, Engin, Hatice Billur, de Esch, Iwan, Evelo, Chris, Falcao, Andre O., Farag, Sherif, Fernandez-Lozano, Carlos, Fisch, Kathleen, Flobak, Asmund, Fornari, Chiara, Foroushani, Amir B. K., Fotso, Donatien Chedom, Fourches, Denis, Friend, Stephen, Frigessi, Arnoldo, Gao, Feng, Gao, Xiaoting, Gerold, Jeffrey M., Gestraud, Pierre, Ghosh, Samik, Gillberg, Jussi, Godoy-Lorite, Antonia, Godynyuk, Lizzy, Godzik, Adam, Goldenberg, Anna, Gomez-Cabrero, David, de Graaf, Chris, Gray, Harry, Grechkin, Maxim, Guimera, Roger, Guney, Emre, Haibe-Kains, Benjamin, Han, Younghyun, Hase, Takeshi, He, Di, He, Liye, Heath, Lenwood S., Hellton, Kristoffer H., Helmer-Citterich, Manuela, Hidalgo, Marta R., Hidru, Daniel, Hill, Steven M., Hochreiter, Sepp, Hong, Seungpyo, Hovig, Eivind, Hsueh, Ya-Chih, Hu, Zhiyuan, Huang, Justin K., Huang, R. Stephanie, Hunyady, Laszlo, Hwang, Jinseub, Hwang, Tae Hyun, Hwang, Woochang, Hwang, Yongdeuk, Isayev, Olexandr, Walk, Oliver Bear Don't, Jack, John, Jahandideh, Samad, Ji, Jiadong, Jo, Yousang, Kamola, Piotr J., Kanev, Georgi K., Karacosta, Loukia, Karimi, Mostafa, Kaski, Samuel, Kazanov, Marat, Khamis, Abdullah M., Khan, Suleiman Ali, Kiani, Narsis A., Kim, Allen, Kim, Jinhan, Kim, Juntae, Kim, Kiseong, Kim, Kyung, Kim, Sunkyu, Kim, Yongsoo, Kim, Yunseong, Kirk, Paul D. W., Kitano, Hiroaki, Klambauer, Gunter, Knowles, David, Ko, Melissa, Kohn-Luque, Alvaro, Kooistra, Albert J., Kuenemann, Melaine A., Kuiper, Martin, Kurz, Christoph, Kwon, Mijin, van Laarhoven, Twan, Laegreid, Astrid, Lederer, Simone, Lee, Heewon, Lee, Jeon, Lee, Yun Woo, Leppaho, Eemeli, Lewis, Richard, Li, Jing, Li, Lang, Liley, James, Lim, Weng Khong, Lin, Chieh, Liu, Yiyi, Lopez, Yosvany, Low, Joshua, Lysenko, Artem, Machado, Daniel, Madhukar, Neel, De Maeyer, Dries, Malpartida, Ana Belen, Mamitsuka, Hiroshi, Marabita, Francesco, Marchal, Kathleen, Marttinen, Pekka, Mason, Daniel, Mazaheri, Alireza, Mehmood, Arfa, Mehreen, Ali, Michaut, Magali, Miller, Ryan A., Mitsopoulos, Costas, Modos, Dezso, Van Moerbeke, Marijke, Moo, Keagan, Motsinger-Reif, Alison, Movva, Rajiv, Muraru, Sebastian, Muratov, Eugene, Mushthofa, Mushthofa, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Nakken, Sigve, Nath, Aritro, Neuvial, Pierre, Newton, Richard, Ning, Zheng, De Niz, Carlos, Oliva, Baldo, Olsen, Catharina, Palmeri, Antonio, Panesar, Bhawan, Papadopoulos, Stavros, Park, Jaesub, Park, Seonyeong, Park, Sungjoon, Pawitan, Yudi, Peluso, Daniele, Pendyala, Sriram, Peng, Jian, Perfetto, Livia, Pirro, Stefano, Plevritis, Sylvia, Politi, Regina, Poon, Hoifung, Porta, Eduard, Prellner, Isak, Preuer, Kristina, Angel Pujana, Miguel, Ramnarine, Ricardo, Reid, John E., Reyal, Fabien, Richardson, Sylvia, Ricketts, Camir, Rieswijk, Linda, Rocha, Miguel, Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Carmen, Roell, Kyle, Rotroff, Daniel, de Ruiter, Julian R., Rukawa, Ploy, Sadacca, Benjamin, Safikhani, Zhaleh, Safitri, Fita, Sales-Pardo, Marta, Sauer, Sebastian, Schlichting, Moritz, Seoane, Jose A., Serra, Jordi, Shang, Ming-Mei, Sharma, Alok, Sharma, Hari, Shen, Yang, Shiga, Motoki, Shin, Moonshik, Shkedy, Ziv, Shopsowitz, Kevin, Sinai, Sam, Skola, Dylan, Smirnov, Petr, Soerensen, Izel Fourie, Soerensen, Peter, Song, Je-Hoon, Song, Sang Ok, Soufan, Othman, Spitzmueller, Andreas, Steipe, Boris, Suphavilai, Chayaporn, Tamayo, Sergio Pulido, Tamborero, David, Tang, Jing, Tanoli, Zia-ur-Rehman, Tarres-Deulofeu, Marc, Tegner, Jesper, Thommesen, Liv, Tonekaboni, Seyed Ali Madani, Tran, Hong, De Troyer, Ewoud, Truong, Amy, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Turu, Gabor, Tzeng, Guang-Yo, Verbeke, Lieven, Videla, Santiago, Vis, Daniel, Voronkov, Andrey, Votis, Konstantinos, Wang, Ashley, Wang, Hong-Qiang Horace, Wang, Po-Wei, Wang, Sheng, Wang, Wei, Wang, Xiaochen, Wang, Xin, Wennerberg, Krister, Wernisch, Lorenz, Wessels, Lodewyk, van Westen, Gerard J. P., Westerman, Bart A., White, Simon Richard, Willighagen, Egon, Wurdinger, Tom, Xie, Lei, Xie, Shuilian, Xu, Hua, Yadav, Bhagwan, Yau, Christopher, Yeerna, Huwate, Yin, Jia Wei, Yu, Michael, Yu, MinHwan, Yun, So Jeong, Zakharov, Alexey, Zamichos, Alexandros, Zanin, Massimiliano, Zeng, Li, Zenil, Hector, Zhang, Frederick, Zhang, Pengyue, Zhang, Wei, Zhao, Hongyu, Zhao, Lan, Zheng, Wenjin, Zoufir, Azedine, Zucknick, Manuela, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Institute of Data Science, RS: FSE DACS IDS, Bioinformatica, RS: NUTRIM - R1 - Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health, RS: FHML MaCSBio, Promovendi NTM, Tero Aittokallio / Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Hu, Z, Fotso, DC, Menden, M, Wang, D, Mason, M, Szalai, B, Bulusu, K, Guan, Y, Yu, T, Kang, J, Jeon, M, Wolfinger, R, Nguyen, T, Zaslavskiy, M, Abante, J, Abecassis, B, Aben, N, Aghamirzaie, D, Aittokallio, T, Akhtari, F, Al-lazikani, B, Alam, T, Allam, A, Allen, C, de Almeida, M, Altarawy, D, Alves, V, Amadoz, A, Anchang, B, Antolin, A, Ash, J, Aznar, V, Ba-alawi, W, Bagheri, M, Bajic, V, Ball, G, Ballester, P, Baptista, D, Bare, C, Bateson, M, Bender, A, Bertrand, D, Wijayawardena, B, Boroevich, K, Bosdriesz, E, Bougouffa, S, Bounova, G, Brouwer, T, Bryant, B, Calaza, M, Calderone, A, Calza, S, Capuzzi, S, Carbonell-Caballero, J, Carlin, D, Carter, H, Castagnoli, L, Celebi, R, Cesareni, G, Chang, H, Chen, G, Chen, H, Cheng, L, Chernomoretz, A, Chicco, D, Cho, K, Cho, S, Choi, D, Choi, J, Choi, K, Choi, M, Cock, M, Coker, E, Cortes-Ciriano, I, Cserzo, M, Cubuk, C, Curtis, C, Daele, D, Dang, C, Dijkstra, T, Dopazo, J, Draghici, S, Drosou, A, Dumontier, M, Ehrhart, F, Eid, F, Elhefnawi, M, Elmarakeby, H, van Engelen, B, Engin, H, de Esch, I, Evelo, C, Falcao, A, Farag, S, Fernandez-Lozano, C, Fisch, K, Flobak, A, Fornari, C, Foroushani, A, Fotso, D, Fourches, D, Friend, S, Frigessi, A, Gao, F, Gao, X, Gerold, J, Gestraud, P, Ghosh, S, Gillberg, J, Godoy-Lorite, A, Godynyuk, L, Godzik, A, Goldenberg, A, Gomez-Cabrero, D, Gonen, M, de Graaf, C, Gray, H, Grechkin, M, Guimera, R, Guney, E, Haibe-Kains, B, Han, Y, Hase, T, He, D, He, L, Heath, L, Hellton, K, Helmer-Citterich, M, Hidalgo, M, Hidru, D, Hill, S, Hochreiter, S, Hong, S, Hovig, E, Hsueh, Y, Huang, J, Huang, R, Hunyady, L, Hwang, J, Hwang, T, Hwang, W, Hwang, Y, Isayev, O, Don't Walk, O, Jack, J, Jahandideh, S, Ji, J, Jo, Y, Kamola, P, Kanev, G, Karacosta, L, Karimi, M, Kaski, S, Kazanov, M, Khamis, A, Khan, S, Kiani, N, Kim, A, Kim, J, Kim, K, Kim, S, Kim, Y, Kirk, P, Kitano, H, Klambauer, G, Knowles, D, Ko, M, Kohn-Luque, A, Kooistra, A, Kuenemann, M, Kuiper, M, Kurz, C, Kwon, M, van Laarhoven, T, Laegreid, A, Lederer, S, Lee, H, Lee, J, Lee, Y, Lepp_aho, E, Lewis, R, Li, J, Li, L, Liley, J, Lim, W, Lin, C, Liu, Y, Lopez, Y, Low, J, Lysenko, A, Machado, D, Madhukar, N, Maeyer, D, Malpartida, A, Mamitsuka, H, Marabita, F, Marchal, K, Marttinen, P, Mason, D, Mazaheri, A, Mehmood, A, Mehreen, A, Michaut, M, Miller, R, Mitsopoulos, C, Modos, D, Moerbeke, M, Moo, K, Motsinger-Reif, A, Movva, R, Muraru, S, Muratov, E, Mushthofa, M, Nagarajan, N, Nakken, S, Nath, A, Neuvial, P, Newton, R, Ning, Z, Niz, C, Oliva, B, Olsen, C, Palmeri, A, Panesar, B, Papadopoulos, S, Park, J, Park, S, Pawitan, Y, Peluso, D, Pendyala, S, Peng, J, Perfetto, L, Pirro, S, Plevritis, S, Politi, R, Poon, H, Porta, E, Prellner, I, Preuer, K, Pujana, M, Ramnarine, R, Reid, J, Reyal, F, Richardson, S, Ricketts, C, Rieswijk, L, Rocha, M, Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, C, Roell, K, Rotroff, D, de Ruiter, J, Rukawa, P, Sadacca, B, Safikhani, Z, Safitri, F, Sales-Pardo, M, Sauer, S, Schlichting, M, Seoane, J, Serra, J, Shang, M, Sharma, A, Sharma, H, Shen, Y, Shiga, M, Shin, M, Shkedy, Z, Shopsowitz, K, Sinai, S, Skola, D, Smirnov, P, Soerensen, I, Soerensen, P, Song, J, Song, S, Soufan, O, Spitzmueller, A, Steipe, B, Suphavilai, C, Tamayo, S, Tamborero, D, Tang, J, Tanoli, Z, Tarres-Deulofeu, M, Tegner, J, Thommesen, L, Tonekaboni, S, Tran, H, Troyer, E, Truong, A, Tsunoda, T, Turu, G, Tzeng, G, Verbeke, L, Videla, S, Vis, D, Voronkov, A, Votis, K, Wang, A, Wang, H, Wang, P, Wang, S, Wang, W, Wang, X, Wennerberg, K, Wernisch, L, Wessels, L, van Westen, G, Westerman, B, White, S, Willighagen, E, Wurdinger, T, Xie, L, Xie, S, Xu, H, Yadav, B, Yau, C, Yeerna, H, Yin, J, Yu, M, Yun, S, Zakharov, A, Zamichos, A, Zanin, M, Zeng, L, Zenil, H, Zhang, F, Zhang, P, Zhang, W, Zhao, H, Zhao, L, Zheng, W, Zoufir, A, Zucknick, M, Jang, I, Ghazoui, Z, Ahsen, M, Vogel, R, Neto, E, Norman, T, Tang, E, Garnett, M, Veroli, G, Fawell, S, Stolovitzky, G, Guinney, J, Dry, J, Saez-Rodriguez, J, Menden, Michael P. [0000-0003-0267-5792], Mason, Mike J. [0000-0002-5652-7739], Yu, Thomas [0000-0002-5841-0198], Kang, Jaewoo [0000-0001-6798-9106], Nguyen, Tin [0000-0001-8001-9470], Ahsen, Mehmet Eren [0000-0002-4907-0427], Stolovitzky, Gustavo [0000-0002-9618-2819], Guinney, Justin [0000-0003-1477-1888], Saez-Rodriguez, Julio [0000-0002-8552-8976], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Menden, Michael P [0000-0003-0267-5792], Mason, Mike J [0000-0002-5652-7739], Pathology, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Medical oncology laboratory, Neurosurgery, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, AIMMS, Medicinal chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Department of Computer Science, Professorship Marttinen P., Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

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Drug Resistance, 02 engineering and technology, 13, PATHWAY, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Càncer, lcsh:Science, media_common, Cancer, Tumor, Settore BIO/18, Settore BIO/11, Drug combinations, High-throughput screening, Drug Synergism, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2 [https], Genomics, Machine Learning, predictions, 3. Good health, ddc, Technologie de l'environnement, contrôle de la pollution, Benchmarking, 5.1 Pharmaceuticals, Cancer treatment, Farmacogenètica, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Development of treatments and therapeutic interventions, 0210 nano-technology, Human, Drug, media_common.quotation_subject, Science, 49/23, ADAM17 Protein, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, RESOURCE, Machine learning, Genetics, Chimie, Humans, BREAST-CANCER, CELL, 49/98, Science & Technology, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocol, 45, MUTATIONS, Computational Biology, Androgen receptor, Breast-cancer, Gene, Cell, Inhibition, Resistance, Pathway, Mutations, Landscape, Resource, 631/114/1305, medicine.disease, Drug synergy, 49, 030104 developmental biology, Pharmacogenetics, Mutation, Ciências Médicas::Biotecnologia Médica, lcsh:Q, 631/154/1435/2163, Biomarkers, RESISTANCE, 0301 basic medicine, ING-INF/06 - BIOINGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA E INFORMATICA, Statistical methods, Computer science, General Physics and Astronomy, Datasets as Topic, Drug resistance, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Biotecnologia Médica [Ciências Médicas], Neoplasms, Science and technology, Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors, Multidisciplinary, Biomarkers, Tumor, Cell Line, Tumor, Drug Antagonism, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Treatment Outcome, Pharmacogenetic, article, ANDROGEN RECEPTOR, 49/39, 631/114/2415, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 692/4028/67, Multidisciplinary Sciences, 317 Pharmacy, Patient Safety, Systems biology, 3122 Cancers, INHIBITION, Computational biology, Cell Line, medicine, LANDSCAPE, Physique, Human Genome, Data Science, General Chemistry, AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination DREAM Consortium, Astronomie, GENE, Good Health and Well Being, Pharmacogenomics, Genomic, Neoplasm, 631/553, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase
Abstract

PubMed: 31209238, The effectiveness of most cancer targeted therapies is short-lived. Tumors often develop resistance that might be overcome with drug combinations. However, the number of possible combinations is vast, necessitating data-driven approaches to find optimal patient-specific treatments. Here we report AstraZeneca’s large drug combination dataset, consisting of 11,576 experiments from 910 combinations across 85 molecularly characterized cancer cell lines, and results of a DREAM Challenge to evaluate computational strategies for predicting synergistic drug pairs and biomarkers. 160 teams participated to provide a comprehensive methodological development and benchmarking. Winning methods incorporate prior knowledge of drug-target interactions. Synergy is predicted with an accuracy matching biological replicates for >60% of combinations. However, 20% of drug combinations are poorly predicted by all methods. Genomic rationale for synergy predictions are identified, including ADAM17 inhibitor antagonism when combined with PIK3CB/D inhibition contrasting to synergy when combined with other PI3K-pathway inhibitors in PIK3CA mutant cells. © 2019, The Author(s)., National Institute for Health Research, NIHR Wellcome Trust, WT: 102696, 206194 Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA Bayer 668858 PrECISE AstraZeneca, We thank the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer and COSMIC teams at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for help with the preparation of the molecular data, Denes Turei for help with Omnipath, and Katjusa Koler for help with matching drug names across combination screens. We thank AstraZeneca for funding and provision of data to the DREAM Consortium to run the challenge, and funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research (under grant agreement No 668858 PrECISE to J.S.R.), the Joint Research Center for Computational Biomedicine (which is partially funded by Bayer AG) to J.S.R., National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Sheffield Biomedical Research Center, Premium Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. M.G lab is supported by Wellcome Trust (102696 and 206194)., Competing interests: K.C.B., Z.G., G.Y.D., E.K.Y.T., S.F., and J.R.D. are AstraZeneca employees. K.C.B., Z.G., E.K.Y.T., S.F., and J.R.D. are AstraZeneca shareholders. Y.G. receives personal compensation from Eli Lilly and Company, is a shareholder of Cleerly, Inc., and Ann Arbor Algorithms, Inc. M.G. receives research funding from AstraZeneca and has performed consultancy for Sanofi. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.

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2019
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6. Human genome replication proceeds through four chromatin states.

Author

Hanna Julienne, Azedine Zoufir, Benjamin Audit, and Alain Arneodo

Subjects
Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract

Advances in genomic studies have led to significant progress in understanding the epigenetically controlled interplay between chromatin structure and nuclear functions. Epigenetic modifications were shown to play a key role in transcription regulation and genome activity during development and differentiation or in response to the environment. Paradoxically, the molecular mechanisms that regulate the initiation and the maintenance of the spatio-temporal replication program in higher eukaryotes, and in particular their links to epigenetic modifications, still remain elusive. By integrative analysis of the genome-wide distributions of thirteen epigenetic marks in the human cell line K562, at the 100 kb resolution of corresponding mean replication timing (MRT) data, we identify four major groups of chromatin marks with shared features. These states have different MRT, namely from early to late replicating, replication proceeds though a transcriptionally active euchromatin state (C1), a repressive type of chromatin (C2) associated with polycomb complexes, a silent state (C3) not enriched in any available marks, and a gene poor HP1-associated heterochromatin state (C4). When mapping these chromatin states inside the megabase-sized U-domains (U-shaped MRT profile) covering about 50% of the human genome, we reveal that the associated replication fork polarity gradient corresponds to a directional path across the four chromatin states, from C1 at U-domains borders followed by C2, C3 and C4 at centers. Analysis of the other genome half is consistent with early and late replication loci occurring in separate compartments, the former correspond to gene-rich, high-GC domains of intermingled chromatin states C1 and C2, whereas the latter correspond to gene-poor, low-GC domains of alternating chromatin states C3 and C4 or long C4 domains. This new segmentation sheds a new light on the epigenetic regulation of the spatio-temporal replication program in human and provides a framework for further studies in different cell types, in both health and disease.

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2013
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7. Information-Derived Mechanistic Hypotheses for Structural Cardiotoxicity

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Samar Mahmoud, Avid M. Afzal, Amy Pointon, Nigel Greene, Fredrik Svensson, James Harvey, Andreas Bender, Jerome T. Mettetal, Ines Smit, Richard V. Williams, Kathryn A. Giblin, Azedine Zoufir, and Peter Clements

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Drug, Databases, Factual, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, Heart Diseases, media_common.quotation_subject, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Toxicology, Bioinformatics, 03 medical and health sciences, Drug withdrawal, Adverse Event Reporting System, 0302 clinical medicine, Pharmacotherapy, Adverse Outcome Pathway, medicine, Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems, Animals, Data Mining, Humans, Adverse effect, media_common, Cardiotoxicity, United States Food and Drug Administration, business.industry, General Medicine, Models, Theoretical, medicine.disease, United States, 030104 developmental biology, business
Abstract

Adverse events resulting from drug therapy can be a cause of drug withdrawal, reduced and or restricted clinical use, as well as a major economic burden for society. To increase the safety of new drugs, there is a need to better understand the mechanisms causing the adverse events. One way to derive new mechanistic hypotheses is by linking data on drug adverse events with the drugs' biological targets. In this study, we have used data mining techniques and mutual information statistical approaches to find associations between reported adverse events collected from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System and assay outcomes from ToxCast, with the aim to generate mechanistic hypotheses related to structural cardiotoxicity (morphological damage to cardiomyocytes and/or loss of viability). Our workflow identified 22 adverse event-assay outcome associations. From these associations, 10 implicated targets could be substantiated with evidence from previous studies reported in the literature. For two of the identified targets, we also describe a more detailed mechanism, forming putative adverse outcome pathways associated with structural cardiotoxicity. Our study also highlights the difficulties deriving these type of associations from the very limited amount of data available.

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2018
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8. Toward Understanding the Cold, Hot, and Neutral Nature of Chinese Medicines Using in Silico Mode-of-Action Analysis

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Lewis H. Mervin, Andreas Bender, Xianjun Fu, Xuebo Li, Jiaoyang Li, Yang Zhou, Azedine Zoufir, Huayun Yu, Yongmei Song, Zhenguo Wang, and Siti Zuraidah Mohamad Zobir

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering, In silico, General Chemistry, Computational biology, Library and Information Sciences, Behavioural disorders, Pharmacology, Chemical space, Computer Science Applications, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Computer Simulation, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Medicine, Chinese Traditional, Mode of action
Abstract

One important, however, poorly understood, concept of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is that of hot, cold, and neutral nature of its bioactive principles. To advance the field, in this study, we analyzed compound-nature pairs from TCM on a large scale (23 000 structures) via chemical space visualizations to understand its physicochemical domain and in silico target prediction to understand differences related to their modes-of-action (MoA) against proteins. We found that overall TCM natures spread into different subclusters with specific molecular patterns, as opposed to forming coherent global groups. Compounds associated with cold nature had a lower clogP and contain more aliphatic rings than the other groups and were found to control detoxification, heat-clearing, heart development processes, and have sedative function, associated with "Mental and behavioural disorders" diseases. While compounds associated with hot nature were on average of lower molecular weight, have more aromatic ring systems than other groups, frequently seemed to control body temperature, have cardio-protection function, improve fertility and sexual function, and represent excitatory or activating effects, associated with "endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases" and "diseases of the circulatory system". Compounds associated with neutral nature had a higher polar surface area and contain more cyclohexene moieties than other groups and seem to be related to memory function, suggesting that their nature may be a useful guide for their utility in neural degenerative diseases. We were hence able to elucidate the difference between different nature classes in TCM on the molecular level, and on a large data set, for the first time, thereby helping a better understanding of TCM nature theory and bridging the gap between traditional medicine and our current understanding of the human body.

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2017
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9. A systems genomics approach to uncover patient-specific pathogenic pathways and proteins in ulcerative colitis.

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Brooks-Warburton, Johanne, Modos, Dezso, Sudhakar, Padhmanand, Madgwick, Matthew, Thomas, John P., Bohar, Balazs, Fazekas, David, Zoufir, Azedine, Kapuy, Orsolya, Szalay-Beko, Mate, Verstockt, Bram, Hall, Lindsay J., Watson, Alastair, Tremelling, Mark, Parkes, Miles, Vermeire, Severine, Bender, Andreas, Carding, Simon R., and Korcsmaros, Tamas

Subjects
ULCERATIVE colitis, GENOMICS, SINGLE nucleotide polymorphisms, WOUND healing, INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases, CELL motility, INDIVIDUALIZED medicine, HEALING
Abstract

We describe a precision medicine workflow, the integrated single nucleotide polymorphism network platform (iSNP), designed to determine the mechanisms by which SNPs affect cellular regulatory networks, and how SNP co-occurrences contribute to disease pathogenesis in ulcerative colitis (UC). Using SNP profiles of 378 UC patients we map the regulatory effects of the SNPs to a human signalling network containing protein-protein, miRNA-mRNA and transcription factor binding interactions. With unsupervised clustering algorithms we group these patient-specific networks into four distinct clusters driven by PRKCB, HLA, SNAI1/CEBPB/PTPN1 and VEGFA/XPO5/POLH hubs. The pathway analysis identifies calcium homeostasis, wound healing and cell motility as key processes in UC pathogenesis. Using transcriptomic data from an independent patient cohort, with three complementary validation approaches focusing on the SNP-affected genes, the patient specific modules and affected functions, we confirm the regulatory impact of non-coding SNPs. iSNP identified regulatory effects for disease-associated non-coding SNPs, and by predicting the patient-specific pathogenic processes, we propose a systems-level way to stratify patients. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) affect cellular regulatory networks, and SNP co-occurrences contribute to disease pathogenesis in ulcerative colitis (UC). Here the authors introduce iSNP, a precision medicine pipeline that combines genomics and network biology approaches to uncover patient specific pathways affected in complex diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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10. Fragment Profiling Approach to Inhibitors of the Orphan M. tuberculosis P450 CYP144A1

Author

Madeline E. Kavanagh, Andreas Bender, Jude Chenge, Anthony G. Coyne, Andrew W. Munro, Chris Abell, Kirsty J. McLean, and Azedine Zoufir

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Models, Molecular, enzyme inhibitors, Gene Expression, Ligands, Biochemistry, Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System, Structural Biology, Drug Discovery, Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors, Cloning, Molecular, Phylogeny, chemistry.chemical_classification, fragment screening, Recombinant Proteins, Protein Binding, Tuberculosis, cytochrome P450, Biophysics, CYP144A1, Biology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 03 medical and health sciences, Bacterial Proteins, CYP121A1, medicine, Escherichia coli, Binding Sites, 030102 biochemistry & molecular biology, Organic Chemistry, Cytochrome P450, Computational Biology, Pathogenicity, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Peptide Fragments, Structural homology, 030104 developmental biology, Enzyme, chemistry, Structural Homology, Protein, Bacterial virulence, biology.protein
Abstract

Similarity between the ligand binding profiles of enzymes may aid functional characterization and be of greater relevance to inhibitor development than sequence similarity or structural homology. Fragment screening is an efficient approach for characterization of the ligand binding profile of an enzyme and has been applied here to study the family of cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) expressed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The Mtb P450s have important roles in bacterial virulence, survival, and pathogenicity. Comparing the fragment profiles of seven of these enzymes revealed that P450s which share a similar biological function have significantly similar fragment profiles, whereas functionally unrelated or orphan P450s exhibit distinct ligand binding properties, despite overall high structural homology. Chemical structures that exhibit promiscuous binding between enzymes have been identified, as have selective fragments that could provide leads for inhibitor development. The similarity between the fragment binding profiles of the orphan enzyme CYP144A1 and CYP121A1, a characterized enzyme that is important for Mtb viability, provides a case study illustrating the subsequent identification of novel CYP144A1 ligands. The different binding modes of these compounds to CYP144A1 provide insight into structural and dynamic aspects of the enzyme, possible biological function, and provide the opportunity to develop inhibitors. Expanding this fragment profiling approach to include a greater number of functionally characterized and orphan proteins may provide a valuable resource for understanding enzyme-ligand interactions.

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2017
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12. Computer-aided design of multi-target ligands at AR, AR and PDE10A, key proteins in neurodegenerative diseases.

Author

Kalash, Leen, Val, Cristina, Azuaje, Jhonny, Loza, María, Svensson, Fredrik, Zoufir, Azedine, Mervin, Lewis, Ladds, Graham, Brea, José, Glen, Robert, Sotelo, Eddy, and Bender, Andreas

Subjects
COMPUTER-aided design, LIGANDS (Chemistry), ADENOSINES, PROTEINS in the body, NEURODEGENERATION
Abstract

Compounds designed to display polypharmacology may have utility in treating complex diseases, where activity at multiple targets is required to produce a clinical effect. In particular, suitable compounds may be useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases by promoting neuronal survival in a synergistic manner via their multi- target activity at the adenosine A and A receptors (AR and AR) and phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A), which modulate intracellular cAMP levels. Hence, in this work we describe a computational method for the design of synthetically feasible ligands that bind to A and A receptors and inhibit phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A), involving a retrosynthetic approach employing in silico target prediction and docking, which may be generally applicable to multi-target compound design at several target classes. This approach has identified 2-aminopyridine-3-carbonitriles as the first multi-target ligands at AR, AR and PDE10A, by showing agreement between the ligand and structure based predictions at these targets. The series were synthesized via an efficient one-pot scheme and validated pharmacologically as AR/AR-PDE10A ligands, with IC values of 2.4-10.0 μM at PDE10A and K values of 34-294 nM at AR and/or AR. Furthermore, selectivity profiling of the synthesized 2-amino-pyridin-3-carbonitriles against other subtypes of both protein families showed that the multi-target ligand 8 exhibited a minimum of twofold selectivity over all tested off-targets. In addition, both compounds 8 and 16 exhibited the desired multi-target profile, which could be considered for further functional efficacy assessment, analog modification for the improvement of selectivity towards AR, AR and PDE10A collectively, and evaluation of their potential synergy in modulating cAMP levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2017
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15. Human Genome Replication Proceeds through Four Chromatin States.

Author

Julienne, Hanna, Zoufir, Azedine, Audit, Benjamin, and Arneodo, Alain

Subjects
DNA replication, MOLECULAR structure of chromatin, EPIGENETICS, GENETIC transcription regulation, MOLECULAR genetics, GENETIC markers
Abstract

Advances in genomic studies have led to significant progress in understanding the epigenetically controlled interplay between chromatin structure and nuclear functions. Epigenetic modifications were shown to play a key role in transcription regulation and genome activity during development and differentiation or in response to the environment. Paradoxically, the molecular mechanisms that regulate the initiation and the maintenance of the spatio-temporal replication program in higher eukaryotes, and in particular their links to epigenetic modifications, still remain elusive. By integrative analysis of the genome-wide distributions of thirteen epigenetic marks in the human cell line K562, at the 100 kb resolution of corresponding mean replication timing (MRT) data, we identify four major groups of chromatin marks with shared features. These states have different MRT, namely from early to late replicating, replication proceeds though a transcriptionally active euchromatin state (C1), a repressive type of chromatin (C2) associated with polycomb complexes, a silent state (C3) not enriched in any available marks, and a gene poor HP1-associated heterochromatin state (C4). When mapping these chromatin states inside the megabase-sized U-domains (U-shaped MRT profile) covering about 50% of the human genome, we reveal that the associated replication fork polarity gradient corresponds to a directional path across the four chromatin states, from C1 at U-domains borders followed by C2, C3 and C4 at centers. Analysis of the other genome half is consistent with early and late replication loci occurring in separate compartments, the former correspond to gene-rich, high-GC domains of intermingled chromatin states C1 and C2, whereas the latter correspond to gene-poor, low-GC domains of alternating chromatin states C3 and C4 or long C4 domains. This new segmentation sheds a new light on the epigenetic regulation of the spatio-temporal replication program in human and provides a framework for further studies in different cell types, in both health and disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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16. eMolTox: prediction of molecular toxicity with confidence.

Author

Ji, Changge, Svensson, Fredrik, Zoufir, Azedine, and Bender, Andreas

Subjects
MOLECULES, TOXICOLOGY, STRUCTURAL bioinformatics, CONFIDENCE intervals, BIOLOGICAL databases
Abstract

Summary: In this work, we present eMolTox, a web server for the prediction of potential toxicity associated with a given molecule. A total of 174 toxicology-related in vitro/vivo experimental datasets were used for model construction and Mondrian conformal prediction was used to estimate the confidence of the resulting predictions. Toxic substructure analysis is also implemented in eMolTox. eMolTox predicts and displays a wealth of information of potential molecular toxicities for safety analysis in drug development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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