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1. Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models

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Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen, Hernández Medina, Ricardo, Aguayo-Orozco, Alejandro, Johansen, Joachim, Nissen, Jakob Nybo, Brorsson, Caroline, Mazzoni, Gianluca, Niu, Lili, Biel, Jorge Hernansanz, Leal Rodríguez, Cristina, Brasas, Valentas, Webel, Henry, Benros, Michael Eriksen, Pedersen, Anders Gorm, Chmura, Piotr Jaroslaw, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Mari, Andrea, Koivula, Robert, Mahajan, Anubha, Vinuela, Ana, Tajes, Juan Fernandez, Sharma, Sapna, Haid, Mark, Hong, Mun-Gwan, Musholt, Petra B., De Masi, Federico, Vogt, Josef, Pedersen, Helle Krogh, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Jones, Angus, Kennedy, Gwen, Bell, Jimmy, Thomas, E. Louise, Frost, Gary, Thomsen, Henrik, Hansen, Elizaveta, Hansen, Tue Haldor, Vestergaard, Henrik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T., ‘t Hart, Leen M., Pattou, Francois, Raverdy, Violeta, Brage, Soren, Kokkola, Tarja, Heggie, Alison, McEvoy, Donna, Mourby, Miranda, Kaye, Jane, Hattersley, Andrew, McDonald, Timothy, Ridderstråle, Martin, Walker, Mark, Forgie, Ian, Giordano, Giuseppe N., Pavo, Imre, Ruetten, Hartmut, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil, Franks, Paul W., Schwenk, Jochen M., Adamski, Jerzy, McCarthy, Mark I., Pearson, Ewan, Banasik, Karina, Rasmussen, Simon, and Brunak, Søren

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2023
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2. Author Correction: Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models

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Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen, Hernández Medina, Ricardo, Aguayo-Orozco, Alejandro, Johansen, Joachim, Nissen, Jakob Nybo, Brorsson, Caroline, Mazzoni, Gianluca, Niu, Lili, Biel, Jorge Hernansanz, Leal Rodríguez, Cristina, Brasas, Valentas, Webel, Henry, Benros, Michael Eriksen, Pedersen, Anders Gorm, Chmura, Piotr Jaroslaw, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Mari, Andrea, Koivula, Robert, Mahajan, Anubha, Vinuela, Ana, Tajes, Juan Fernandez, Sharma, Sapna, Haid, Mark, Hong, Mun-Gwan, Musholt, Petra B., De Masi, Federico, Vogt, Josef, Pedersen, Helle Krogh, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Jones, Angus, Kennedy, Gwen, Bell, Jimmy, Thomas, E. Louise, Frost, Gary, Thomsen, Henrik, Hansen, Elizaveta, Hansen, Tue Haldor, Vestergaard, Henrik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T., ‘t Hart, Leen M., Pattou, Francois, Raverdy, Violeta, Brage, Soren, Kokkola, Tarja, Heggie, Alison, McEvoy, Donna, Mourby, Miranda, Kaye, Jane, Hattersley, Andrew, McDonald, Timothy, Ridderstråle, Martin, Walker, Mark, Forgie, Ian, Giordano, Giuseppe N., Pavo, Imre, Ruetten, Hartmut, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil, Franks, Paul W., Schwenk, Jochen M., Adamski, Jerzy, McCarthy, Mark I., Pearson, Ewan, Banasik, Karina, Rasmussen, Simon, and Brunak, Søren

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2023
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3. Genetic analysis of blood molecular phenotypes reveals common properties in the regulatory networks affecting complex traits

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Brown, Andrew A., Fernandez-Tajes, Juan J., Hong, Mun gwan, Brorsson, Caroline A., Koivula, Robert W., Davtian, David, Dupuis, Théo, Sartori, Ambra, Michalettou, Theodora Dafni, Forgie, Ian M., Adam, Jonathan, Allin, Kristine H., Caiazzo, Robert, Cederberg, Henna, De Masi, Federico, Elders, Petra J.M., Giordano, Giuseppe N., Haid, Mark, Hansen, Torben, Hansen, Tue H., Hattersley, Andrew T., Heggie, Alison J., Howald, Cédric, Jones, Angus G., Kokkola, Tarja, Laakso, Markku, Mahajan, Anubha, Mari, Andrea, McDonald, Timothy J., McEvoy, Donna, Mourby, Miranda, Musholt, Petra B., Nilsson, Birgitte, Pattou, Francois, Penet, Deborah, Raverdy, Violeta, Ridderstråle, Martin, Romano, Luciana, Rutters, Femke, Sharma, Sapna, Teare, Harriet, ‘t Hart, Leen, Tsirigos, Konstantinos D., Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Vestergaard, Henrik, Brunak, Søren, Franks, Paul W., Frost, Gary, Grallert, Harald, Jablonka, Bernd, McCarthy, Mark I., Pavo, Imre, Pedersen, Oluf, Ruetten, Hartmut, Walker, Mark, Adragni, Kofi, Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye L., Artati, Anna A., Arumugam, Manimozhiyan, Atabaki-Pasdar, Naeimeh, Baltauss, Tania, Banasik, Karina, Barnett, Anna L., Baum, Patrick, Bell, Jimmy D., Beulens, Joline W., Bianzano, Susanna B., Bizzotto, Roberto, Bonnefond, Amelie, Cabrelli, Louise, Dale, Matilda, Dawed, Adem Y., de Preville, Nathalie, Dekkers, Koen F., Deshmukh, Harshal A., Dings, Christiane, Donnelly, Louise, Dutta, Avirup, Ehrhardt, Beate, Engelbrechtsen, Line, Eriksen, Rebeca, Fan, Yong, Ferrer, Jorge, Fitipaldi, Hugo, Forman, Annemette, Fritsche, Andreas, Froguel, Philippe, Gassenhuber, Johann, Gough, Stephen, Graefe-Mody, Ulrike, Grempler, Rolf, Groeneveld, Lenka, Groop, Leif, Gudmundsdóttir, Valborg, Gupta, Ramneek, Hennige, Anita M.H., Hill, Anita V., Holl, Reinhard W., Hudson, Michelle, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Jennison, Christopher, Johansen, Joachim, Jonsson, Anna, Karaderi, Tugce, Kaye, Jane, Kennedy, Gwen, Klintenberg, Maria, Kuulasmaa, Teemu, Lehr, Thorsten, Loftus, Heather, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen T., Mazzoni, Gianluca, McRobert, Nicky, McVittie, Ian, Nice, Rachel, Nicolay, Claudia, Nijpels, Giel, Palmer, Colin N., Pedersen, Helle K., Perry, Mandy H., Pomares-Millan, Hugo, Prehn, Cornelia P., Ramisch, Anna, Rasmussen, Simon, Robertson, Neil, Rodriquez, Marianne, Sackett, Peter, Scherer, Nina, Shah, Nisha, Sihinevich, Iryna, Slieker, Roderick C., Sondertoft, Nadja B., Steckel-Hamann, Birgit, Thomas, Melissa K., Thomas, Cecilia Engel E., Thomas, Elizabeth Louise L., Thorand, Barbara, Thorne, Claire E., Tillner, Joachim, Tura, Andrea, Uhlen, Mathias, van Leeuwen, Nienke, van Oort, Sabine, Verkindt, Helene, Vogt, Josef, Wad Sackett, Peter W., Wesolowska-Andersen, Agata, Whitcher, Brandon, White, Margaret W., Adamski, Jerzy, Schwenk, Jochen M., Pearson, Ewan R., Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Viñuela, Ana, Brown, Andrew A., Fernandez-Tajes, Juan J., Hong, Mun gwan, Brorsson, Caroline A., Koivula, Robert W., Davtian, David, Dupuis, Théo, Sartori, Ambra, Michalettou, Theodora Dafni, Forgie, Ian M., Adam, Jonathan, Allin, Kristine H., Caiazzo, Robert, Cederberg, Henna, De Masi, Federico, Elders, Petra J.M., Giordano, Giuseppe N., Haid, Mark, Hansen, Torben, Hansen, Tue H., Hattersley, Andrew T., Heggie, Alison J., Howald, Cédric, Jones, Angus G., Kokkola, Tarja, Laakso, Markku, Mahajan, Anubha, Mari, Andrea, McDonald, Timothy J., McEvoy, Donna, Mourby, Miranda, Musholt, Petra B., Nilsson, Birgitte, Pattou, Francois, Penet, Deborah, Raverdy, Violeta, Ridderstråle, Martin, Romano, Luciana, Rutters, Femke, Sharma, Sapna, Teare, Harriet, ‘t Hart, Leen, Tsirigos, Konstantinos D., Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Vestergaard, Henrik, Brunak, Søren, Franks, Paul W., Frost, Gary, Grallert, Harald, Jablonka, Bernd, McCarthy, Mark I., Pavo, Imre, Pedersen, Oluf, Ruetten, Hartmut, Walker, Mark, Adragni, Kofi, Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye L., Artati, Anna A., Arumugam, Manimozhiyan, Atabaki-Pasdar, Naeimeh, Baltauss, Tania, Banasik, Karina, Barnett, Anna L., Baum, Patrick, Bell, Jimmy D., Beulens, Joline W., Bianzano, Susanna B., Bizzotto, Roberto, Bonnefond, Amelie, Cabrelli, Louise, Dale, Matilda, Dawed, Adem Y., de Preville, Nathalie, Dekkers, Koen F., Deshmukh, Harshal A., Dings, Christiane, Donnelly, Louise, Dutta, Avirup, Ehrhardt, Beate, Engelbrechtsen, Line, Eriksen, Rebeca, Fan, Yong, Ferrer, Jorge, Fitipaldi, Hugo, Forman, Annemette, Fritsche, Andreas, Froguel, Philippe, Gassenhuber, Johann, Gough, Stephen, Graefe-Mody, Ulrike, Grempler, Rolf, Groeneveld, Lenka, Groop, Leif, Gudmundsdóttir, Valborg, Gupta, Ramneek, Hennige, Anita M.H., Hill, Anita V., Holl, Reinhard W., Hudson, Michelle, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Jennison, Christopher, Johansen, Joachim, Jonsson, Anna, Karaderi, Tugce, Kaye, Jane, Kennedy, Gwen, Klintenberg, Maria, Kuulasmaa, Teemu, Lehr, Thorsten, Loftus, Heather, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen T., Mazzoni, Gianluca, McRobert, Nicky, McVittie, Ian, Nice, Rachel, Nicolay, Claudia, Nijpels, Giel, Palmer, Colin N., Pedersen, Helle K., Perry, Mandy H., Pomares-Millan, Hugo, Prehn, Cornelia P., Ramisch, Anna, Rasmussen, Simon, Robertson, Neil, Rodriquez, Marianne, Sackett, Peter, Scherer, Nina, Shah, Nisha, Sihinevich, Iryna, Slieker, Roderick C., Sondertoft, Nadja B., Steckel-Hamann, Birgit, Thomas, Melissa K., Thomas, Cecilia Engel E., Thomas, Elizabeth Louise L., Thorand, Barbara, Thorne, Claire E., Tillner, Joachim, Tura, Andrea, Uhlen, Mathias, van Leeuwen, Nienke, van Oort, Sabine, Verkindt, Helene, Vogt, Josef, Wad Sackett, Peter W., Wesolowska-Andersen, Agata, Whitcher, Brandon, White, Margaret W., Adamski, Jerzy, Schwenk, Jochen M., Pearson, Ewan R., Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., and Viñuela, Ana

Abstract

We evaluate the shared genetic regulation of mRNA molecules, proteins and metabolites derived from whole blood from 3029 human donors. We find abundant allelic heterogeneity, where multiple variants regulate a particular molecular phenotype, and pleiotropy, where a single variant associates with multiple molecular phenotypes over multiple genomic regions. The highest proportion of share genetic regulation is detected between gene expression and proteins (66.6%), with a further median shared genetic associations across 49 different tissues of 78.3% and 62.4% between plasma proteins and gene expression. We represent the genetic and molecular associations in networks including 2828 known GWAS variants, showing that GWAS variants are more often connected to gene expression in trans than other molecular phenotypes in the network. Our work provides a roadmap to understanding molecular networks and deriving the underlying mechanism of action of GWAS variants using different molecular phenotypes in an accessible tissue.

Published
2023

5. Discovery of drug-omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models:[with Author Correction]

Author

Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen, Hernández Medina, Ricardo, Aguayo-Orozco, Alejandro, Johansen, Joachim, Nissen, Jakob Nybo, Brorsson, Caroline, Mazzoni, Gianluca, Niu, Lili, Biel, Jorge Hernansanz, Brasas, Valentas, Webel, Henry, Benros, Michael Eriksen, Pedersen, Anders Gorm, Chmura, Piotr Jaroslaw, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Mari, Andrea, Koivula, Robert, Mahajan, Anubha, Vinuela, Ana, Tajes, Juan Fernandez, Sharma, Sapna, Haid, Mark, Hong, Mun-Gwan, Musholt, Petra B, De Masi, Federico, Vogt, Josef, Pedersen, Helle Krogh, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Jones, Angus, Kennedy, Gwen, Bell, Jimmy, Thomas, E Louise, Frost, Gary, Thomsen, Henrik, Hansen, Elizaveta, Hansen, Tue Haldor, Vestergaard, Henrik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T, 't Hart, Leen M, Pattou, Francois, Raverdy, Violeta, Brage, Soren, Ridderstråle, Martin, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Banasik, Karina, Rasmussen, Simon, Brunak, Søren, Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen, Hernández Medina, Ricardo, Aguayo-Orozco, Alejandro, Johansen, Joachim, Nissen, Jakob Nybo, Brorsson, Caroline, Mazzoni, Gianluca, Niu, Lili, Biel, Jorge Hernansanz, Brasas, Valentas, Webel, Henry, Benros, Michael Eriksen, Pedersen, Anders Gorm, Chmura, Piotr Jaroslaw, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Mari, Andrea, Koivula, Robert, Mahajan, Anubha, Vinuela, Ana, Tajes, Juan Fernandez, Sharma, Sapna, Haid, Mark, Hong, Mun-Gwan, Musholt, Petra B, De Masi, Federico, Vogt, Josef, Pedersen, Helle Krogh, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Jones, Angus, Kennedy, Gwen, Bell, Jimmy, Thomas, E Louise, Frost, Gary, Thomsen, Henrik, Hansen, Elizaveta, Hansen, Tue Haldor, Vestergaard, Henrik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T, 't Hart, Leen M, Pattou, Francois, Raverdy, Violeta, Brage, Soren, Ridderstråle, Martin, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Banasik, Karina, Rasmussen, Simon, and Brunak, Søren

Abstract

The application of multiple omics technologies in biomedical cohorts has the potential to reveal patient-level disease characteristics and individualized response to treatment. However, the scale and heterogeneous nature of multi-modal data makes integration and inference a non-trivial task. We developed a deep-learning-based framework, multi-omics variational autoencoders (MOVE), to integrate such data and applied it to a cohort of 789 people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes with deep multi-omics phenotyping from the DIRECT consortium. Using in silico perturbations, we identified drug-omics associations across the multi-modal datasets for the 20 most prevalent drugs given to people with type 2 diabetes with substantially higher sensitivity than univariate statistical tests. From these, we among others, identified novel associations between metformin and the gut microbiota as well as opposite molecular responses for the two statins, simvastatin and atorvastatin. We used the associations to quantify drug-drug similarities, assess the degree of polypharmacy and conclude that drug effects are distributed across the multi-omics modalities.

Published
2023

7. Translational Informatics in Toxicology

Author

Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner

Abstract

This thesis, and the subjects presented herein, is a condensed representation of most of the comprehensive scientific projects I have been working on, or been involved in, during my years as a PhD student. The work was mainly carried out at the Techical University of Denmark (DTU) (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)), 2011–2017, under the main supervision of Associate Professor Olivier Taboureau and later by Professor Ole Lund. The project has also been supervised by Professor Søren Brunak and Assistant Professor Karine Audouze.Entitled ‘Translational Informatics in Toxicology’, the focus of the project–and the subjects covered within this thesis–is primarily on my work on translational informatics, including, but not limited to, data base management, data integration, data analysis, statistics and web services, in relation to toxicology. The work was mainly conducted as a member of the research group Computational Chemical Biology (CCB), at the Department of Bio and Health Informatics (DBHI) (Danish: Institut for Bio- og Sundhedshedsinformatik (IBSI)), at DTU in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Additionally, some parts of the work was carried out during my external stay, visiting our partners in the research group CCB led by John Overrington at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the bioinformatics node of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), located at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, the United Kingdom.As a significant amount of time and work, was also put into another project–a small part of the thesis will deal with this work. The project focused on facial appearance, and a great part of this work was conducted by colleagues of mine, where I assisted as a guest member in their research group–Behavial Phenomics–led by Hanne Jarmer, at the DBHI.The PhD was funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI-JU), as a part of the eTOX project, and by DTU’s PhD scholarship.

Published
2019

8. Interpretation of appearance: the effect of facial features on first impressions and personality.

Author

Wolffhechel, Karin Marie Brandt, Fagertun, Jens, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Majewski, Wiktor, Hemmingsen, Astrid Sofie, Larsen, Catrine Lohmann, Lorentzen, Sofie Katrine, Jarmer, Hanne Østergaard, Wolffhechel, Karin Marie Brandt, Fagertun, Jens, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Majewski, Wiktor, Hemmingsen, Astrid Sofie, Larsen, Catrine Lohmann, Lorentzen, Sofie Katrine, and Jarmer, Hanne Østergaard

Abstract

Appearance is known to influence social interactions, which in turn could potentially influence personality development. In this study we focus on discovering the relationship between self-reported personality traits, first impressions and facial characteristics. The results reveal that several personality traits can be read above chance from a face, and that facial features influence first impressions. Despite the former, our prediction model fails to reliably infer personality traits from either facial features or first impressions. First impressions, however, could be inferred more reliably from facial features. We have generated artificial, extreme faces visualising the characteristics having an effect on first impressions for several traits. Conclusively, we find a relationship between first impressions, some personality traits and facial features and consolidate that people on average assess a given face in a highly similar manner.

Published
2014

11. The chemical interactome space between the human host and the genetically defined gut metabotypes

Author

Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Nielsen, Henrik Bjørn, Hildebrand, Falk, Raes, Jeroen, Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Kouskoumvekaki, Irene, Panagiotou, Gianni, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Nielsen, Henrik Bjørn, Hildebrand, Falk, Raes, Jeroen, Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Kouskoumvekaki, Irene, and Panagiotou, Gianni

Abstract

The bacteria that colonize the gastrointestinal tracts of mammals represent a highly selected microbiome that has a profound influence on human physiology by shaping the host’s metabolic and immune system activity. Despite the recent advances on the biological principles that underlie microbial symbiosis in the gut of mammals, mechanistic understanding of the contributions of the gut microbiome and how variations in the metabotypes are linked to the host health are obscure. Here, we mapped the entire metabolic potential of the gut microiome based solely on metagenomics sequencing data derived from fecal samples of 124 Europeans (healthy, obese and with inflammatory bowel disease). Interestingly, three distinct clusters of individuals with high, medium and low metabolic potential were observed. By illustrating these results in the context of bacterial population, we concluded that the abundance of the Prevotella genera is a key factor indicating a low metabolic potential. These metagenome-based metabolic signatures were used to study the interaction networks between bacteria-specific metabolites and human proteins. We found that thirty-three such metabolites interact with disease-relevant protein complexes several of which are highly expressed in cells and tissues involved in the signaling and shaping of the adaptive immune system and associated with squamous cell carcinoma and bladder cancer. From this set of metabolites, eighteen are present in DrugBank providing evidence that we carry a natural pharmacy in our guts. Furthermore, we established connections between the systemic effects of non-antibiotic drugs and the gut microbiome of relevance to drug side effects and health-care solutions.

Published
2013

12. ChemProt-2.0: visual navigation in a disease chemical biology database

Author

Kjærulff, Sonny Kim, Wich, Louis, Kringelum, Jens Vindahl, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Kouskoumvekaki, Irene, Audouze, Karine Marie Laure, Lund, Ole, Brunak, Søren, Oprea, Tudor, Taboureau, Olivier, Kjærulff, Sonny Kim, Wich, Louis, Kringelum, Jens Vindahl, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Kouskoumvekaki, Irene, Audouze, Karine Marie Laure, Lund, Ole, Brunak, Søren, Oprea, Tudor, and Taboureau, Olivier

Abstract

ChemProt-2.0 (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ChemProt-2.0) is a public available compilation of multiple chemical-protein annotation resources integrated with diseases and clinical outcomes information. The database has been updated to > 1.15 million compounds with 5.32 millions bioactivity measurements for 15 290 proteins. Each protein is linked to quality-scored human protein-protein interactions data based on more than half a million interactions, for studying diseases and biological outcomes (diseases, pathways and GO terms) through protein complexes. In ChemProt-2.0, therapeutic effects as well as adverse drug reactions have been integrated allowing for suggesting proteins associated to clinical outcomes. New chemical structure fingerprints were computed based on the similarity ensemble approach. Protein sequence similarity search was also integrated to evaluate the promiscuity of proteins, which can help in the prediction of off-target effects. Finally, the database was integrated into a visual interface that enables navigation of the pharmacological space for small molecules. Filtering options were included in order to facilitate and to guide dynamic search of specific queries.

Published
2013

14. Toxicogenomics Investigation Under the eTOX Project

Author

Taboureau, Olivier, Hersey, Anne, Audouze, Karine Marie Laure, Gautier, Laurent, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Akhtar, Ruth, Atkinson, Francis, Overington, John P., Brunak, Søren, Taboureau, Olivier, Hersey, Anne, Audouze, Karine Marie Laure, Gautier, Laurent, Jacobsen, Ulrik Plesner, Akhtar, Ruth, Atkinson, Francis, Overington, John P., and Brunak, Søren

Abstract

Attrition of drug candidates during pre-clinical development due to toxicity, especially hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity, is an important and continuing problem in the pharmaceutical industry. The reasons for this trend may be multifactorial and there is a need to improve toxicity testing paradigms within the industry. Microarray technologies have the ability to generate massive amounts of gene expression information as an initial step to decipher the molecular mechanisms of toxicologic changes, i.e. toxicogenomics. In the context of the eTOX consortium, one of public private partnership within the framework of the European Innovative Medicines Inititative (IMI), we will discuss here how the integration and analysis of toxicogenomics data can help to understanding the mechanism of toxicity of a compound and so reduce the risk of late-stage failure in pharmaceutical development.

Published
2012

16. The chemical interactome space between the human host and the genetically defined gut metabotypes.

Author

Jacobsen UP, Nielsen HB, Hildebrand F, Raes J, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Kouskoumvekaki I, and Panagiotou G

Subjects
Bacteria genetics, Bacteria isolation & purification, Bacteria metabolism, Feces microbiology, Gastrointestinal Tract metabolism, Humans, Metagenomics, Pharmaceutical Preparations metabolism, Symbiosis, Bacteria classification, Gastrointestinal Tract microbiology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases microbiology, Metabolome, Metagenome, Obesity microbiology
Abstract

The bacteria that colonize the gastrointestinal tracts of mammals represent a highly selected microbiome that has a profound influence on human physiology by shaping the host's metabolic and immune system activity. Despite the recent advances on the biological principles that underlie microbial symbiosis in the gut of mammals, mechanistic understanding of the contributions of the gut microbiome and how variations in the metabotypes are linked to the host health are obscure. Here, we mapped the entire metabolic potential of the gut microbiome based solely on metagenomics sequencing data derived from fecal samples of 124 Europeans (healthy, obese and with inflammatory bowel disease). Interestingly, three distinct clusters of individuals with high, medium and low metabolic potential were observed. By illustrating these results in the context of bacterial population, we concluded that the abundance of the Prevotella genera is a key factor indicating a low metabolic potential. These metagenome-based metabolic signatures were used to study the interaction networks between bacteria-specific metabolites and human proteins. We found that thirty-three such metabolites interact with disease-relevant protein complexes several of which are highly expressed in cells and tissues involved in the signaling and shaping of the adaptive immune system and associated with squamous cell carcinoma and bladder cancer. From this set of metabolites, eighteen are present in DrugBank providing evidence that we carry a natural pharmacy in our guts. Furthermore, we established connections between the systemic effects of non-antibiotic drugs and the gut microbiome of relevance to drug side effects and health-care solutions.

Published
2013
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