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Boeckaerts D, Stock M, Ferriol-González C, Oteo-Iglesias J, Sanjuán R, Domingo-Calap P, De Baets B, Briers Y. Prediction of Klebsiella phage-host specificity at the strain level. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4355. [PMID: 38778023 PMCID: PMC11111740 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48675-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Phages are increasingly considered promising alternatives to target drug-resistant bacterial pathogens. However, their often-narrow host range can make it challenging to find matching phages against bacteria of interest. Current computational tools do not accurately predict interactions at the strain level in a way that is relevant and properly evaluated for practical use. We present PhageHostLearn, a machine learning system that predicts strain-level interactions between receptor-binding proteins and bacterial receptors for Klebsiella phage-bacteria pairs. We evaluate this system both in silico and in the laboratory, in the clinically relevant setting of finding matching phages against bacterial strains. PhageHostLearn reaches a cross-validated ROC AUC of up to 81.8% in silico and maintains this performance in laboratory validation. Our approach provides a framework for developing and evaluating phage-host prediction methods that are useful in practice, which we believe to be a meaningful contribution to the machine-learning-guided development of phage therapeutics and diagnostics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dimitri Boeckaerts
- Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, Paterna, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Referencia e Investigación en Resistencia a Antibióticos e Infecciones Relacionadas con la Asistencia Sanitaria, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, Paterna, Spain
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- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, Paterna, Spain
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- KERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Peralta G, CaraDonna PJ, Rakosy D, Fründ J, Pascual Tudanca MP, Dormann CF, Burkle LA, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Knight TM, Resasco J, Winfree R, Blüthgen N, Castillo WJ, Vázquez DP. Predicting plant-pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges. Trends Ecol Evol 2024; 39:494-505. [PMID: 38262775 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
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Plant-pollinator interactions are ecologically and economically important, and, as a result, their prediction is a crucial theoretical and applied goal for ecologists. Although various analytical methods are available, we still have a limited ability to predict plant-pollinator interactions. The predictive ability of different plant-pollinator interaction models depends on the specific definitions used to conceptualize and quantify species attributes (e.g., morphological traits), sampling effects (e.g., detection probabilities), and data resolution and availability. Progress in the study of plant-pollinator interactions requires conceptual and methodological advances concerning the mechanisms and species attributes governing interactions as well as improved modeling approaches to predict interactions. Current methods to predict plant-pollinator interactions present ample opportunities for improvement and spark new horizons for basic and applied research.
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- Guadalupe Peralta
- Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)-National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, X5016GCN, Argentina.
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- Chicago Botanic Garden, Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action, Glencoe, IL 60022, USA; Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department for Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig 04318, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79098, Germany; Animal Network Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20148, Germany
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- Argentine Institute for Dryland Research, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)-National University of Cuyo, Mendoza 5500, Argentina
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- Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79098, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK
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- Department for Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig 04318, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany; Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06108, Germany
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Ecological Networks Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64287, Germany
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- Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79098, Germany
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- Argentine Institute for Dryland Research, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)-National University of Cuyo, Mendoza 5500, Argentina; Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza M5502, Argentina.
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Bogo G, Fisogni A, Iannone A, Grillenzoni FV, Corvucci F, Bortolotti L. Nesting biology and nest structure of the exotic bee Megachile sculpturalis. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2024; 114:67-76. [PMID: 38179982 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485323000627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
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From the 1990s, the Southeast Asia native giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis (Smith, 1853) was introduced first to North America, and then to many countries in Europe. Despite increasing studies on its invasive potential and geographical expansion, information on nesting behaviour of this species is still extremely scarce. To increase knowledge on the nesting biology of M. sculpturalis, we studied multiple aspects of nesting and pollen provisioning in three consecutive years in artificial nests in Bologna, Italy. We observed 166 bees visiting nests, and followed individual nesting behaviour and success of 41 adult females. We measured cavity diameter in 552 nests and characterised the structure in 100 of them. More than 95% of nest diameters ranged between 0.6 and 1.2 cm, overlapping with several sympatric species of cavity-nesting hymenopterans in the study area. Most nests had a first chamber from the entrance of variable length without brood, followed by an average of about two brood cells with a mean length of 2.85 ± 0.13 cm each. The pollen stored in brood cells was almost monofloral, belonging to the ornamental plant Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott. We estimated that a single female should visit ≈180 flowers to collect enough pollen for a single brood cell. These results fill knowledge gaps on the nesting biology and nest structure of the exotic M. sculpturalis, and they are discussed in relation to possible competition with native bees for nesting sites and foraging resources.
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- Gherardo Bogo
- CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 40128, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, F-59000 Lille, France
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- CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 40128, Bologna, Italy
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- CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 40128, Bologna, Italy
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- CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 40128, Bologna, Italy
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Poisot T, Ouellet MA, Mollentze N, Farrell MJ, Becker DJ, Brierley L, Albery GF, Gibb RJ, Seifert SN, Carlson CJ. Network embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome. PATTERNS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 4:100738. [PMID: 37409053 PMCID: PMC10318366 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Predicting host-virus interactions is fundamentally a network science problem. We develop a method for bipartite network prediction that combines a recommender system (linear filtering) with an imputation algorithm based on low-rank graph embedding. We test this method by applying it to a global database of mammal-virus interactions and thus show that it makes biologically plausible predictions that are robust to data biases. We find that the mammalian virome is under-characterized anywhere in the world. We suggest that future virus discovery efforts could prioritize the Amazon Basin (for its unique coevolutionary assemblages) and sub-Saharan Africa (for its poorly characterized zoonotic reservoirs). Graph embedding of the imputed network improves predictions of human infection from viral genome features, providing a shortlist of priorities for laboratory studies and surveillance. Overall, our study indicates that the global structure of the mammal-virus network contains a large amount of information that is recoverable, and this provides new insights into fundamental biology and disease emergence.
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- Timothée Poisot
- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- MRC – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Center for Biodiversity & Environment Research, University College, London, UK
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- Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Strydom T, Bouskila S, Banville F, Barros C, Caron D, Farrell MJ, Fortin M, Hemming V, Mercier B, Pollock LJ, Runghen R, Dalla Riva GV, Poisot T. Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation. Methods Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tanya Strydom
- Département de Sciences Biologiques Université de Montréal Montréal Canada
- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques Université de Montréal Montréal Canada
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques Université de Montréal Montréal Canada
- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
- Département de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Canada
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- Department of Forest Resources Management University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
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- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
- Department of Biology McGill University Montréal Canada
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Canada
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Canada
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
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- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
- Département de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Canada
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- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
- Department of Biology McGill University Montréal Canada
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Canterbury New Zealand
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Canterbury Canterbury New Zealand
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques Université de Montréal Montréal Canada
- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Montréal Canada
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Sydenham MAK, Venter ZS, Reitan T, Rasmussen C, Skrindo AB, Skoog DIJ, Hanevik K, Hegland SJ, Dupont YL, Nielsen A, Chipperfield J, Rusch GM. MetaComNet: A random forest‐based framework for making spatial predictions of plant–pollinator interactions. Methods Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Department of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) University of Oslo Oslo Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway
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- Department of Environmental Sciences Western University of Applied Sciences Sogndal Norway
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- Department of Ecoscience Aarhus University Rønde Denmark
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- Department of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) University of Oslo Oslo Norway
- Department of Landscape and Biodiversity Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) Ås Norway
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