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Ehrhart F, Silva A, Amelsvoort TV, von Scheibler E, Evelo C, Linden DEJ. Copy number variant risk loci for schizophrenia converge on the BDNF pathway. World J Biol Psychiatry 2024; 25:222-232. [PMID: 38493363 DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2024.2327027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Schizophrenia genetics is intricate, with common and rare variants' contributions not fully understood. Certain copy number variations (CNVs) elevate risk, pivotal for understanding mental disorder models. Despite CNVs' genome-wide distribution and variable gene and protein effects, we must explore beyond affected genes to interaction partners and molecular pathways. METHODS In this study, we developed machine-readable interactive pathways to enable analysis of functional effects of genes within CNV loci and identify ten common pathways across CNVs with high schizophrenia risk using the WikiPathways database, schizophrenia risk gene collections from GWAS studies, and a gene-disease association database. RESULTS For CNVs that are pathogenic for schizophrenia, we found overlapping pathways, including BDNF signalling, cytoskeleton, and inflammation. Common schizophrenia risk genes identified by different studies are found in all CNV pathways, but not enriched. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that specific pathways - BDNF signalling - are critical contributors to schizophrenia risk conferred by rare CNVs. Our approach highlights the importance of not only investigating deleted or duplicated genes within pathogenic CNV loci, but also study their direct interaction partners, which may explain pleiotropic effects of CNVs on schizophrenia risk and offer a broader field for interventions.
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM/MHeNS, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Advisium, 's Heeren Loo, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM/MHeNS, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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van der Meer D, Cheng W, Rokicki J, Fernandez-Cabello S, Shadrin A, Smeland OB, Ehrhart F, Gülöksüz S, Pries LK, Lin B, Rutten BPF, van Os J, O’Donovan M, Richards AL, Steen NE, Djurovic S, Westlye LT, Andreassen OA, Kaufmann T. Clustering Schizophrenia Genes by Their Temporal Expression Patterns Aids Functional Interpretation. Schizophr Bull 2024; 50:327-338. [PMID: 37824720 PMCID: PMC10919784 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a highly heritable brain disorder with a typical symptom onset in early adulthood. The 2-hit hypothesis posits that schizophrenia results from differential early neurodevelopment, predisposing an individual, followed by a disruption of later brain maturational processes that trigger the onset of symptoms. STUDY DESIGN We applied hierarchical clustering to transcription levels of 345 genes previously linked to schizophrenia, derived from cortical tissue samples from 56 donors across the lifespan. We subsequently calculated clustered-specific polygenic risk scores for 743 individuals with schizophrenia and 743 sex- and age-matched healthy controls. STUDY RESULTS Clustering revealed a set of 183 genes that was significantly upregulated prenatally and downregulated postnatally and 162 genes that showed the opposite pattern. The prenatally upregulated set of genes was functionally annotated to fundamental cell cycle processes, while the postnatally upregulated set was associated with the immune system and neuronal communication. We found an interaction between the 2 scores; higher prenatal polygenic risk showed a stronger association with schizophrenia diagnosis at higher levels of postnatal polygenic risk. Importantly, this finding was replicated in an independent clinical cohort of 3233 individuals. CONCLUSIONS We provide genetics-based evidence that schizophrenia is shaped by disruptions of separable biological processes acting at distinct phases of neurodevelopment. The modeling of genetic risk factors that moderate each other's effect, informed by the timing of their expression, will aid in a better understanding of the development of schizophrenia.
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- Dennis van der Meer
- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Utrecht University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Science, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Tübingen Center for Mental Health, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Tübingen, Germany
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Niarakis A, Ostaszewski M, Mazein A, Kuperstein I, Kutmon M, Gillespie ME, Funahashi A, Acencio ML, Hemedan A, Aichem M, Klein K, Czauderna T, Burtscher F, Yamada TG, Hiki Y, Hiroi NF, Hu F, Pham N, Ehrhart F, Willighagen EL, Valdeolivas A, Dugourd A, Messina F, Esteban-Medina M, Peña-Chilet M, Rian K, Soliman S, Aghamiri SS, Puniya BL, Naldi A, Helikar T, Singh V, Fernández MF, Bermudez V, Tsirvouli E, Montagud A, Noël V, Ponce-de-Leon M, Maier D, Bauch A, Gyori BM, Bachman JA, Luna A, Piñero J, Furlong LI, Balaur I, Rougny A, Jarosz Y, Overall RW, Phair R, Perfetto L, Matthews L, Rex DAB, Orlic-Milacic M, Gomez LCM, De Meulder B, Ravel JM, Jassal B, Satagopam V, Wu G, Golebiewski M, Gawron P, Calzone L, Beckmann JS, Evelo CT, D’Eustachio P, Schreiber F, Saez-Rodriguez J, Dopazo J, Kuiper M, Valencia A, Wolkenhauer O, Kitano H, Barillot E, Auffray C, Balling R, Schneider R. Drug-target identification in COVID-19 disease mechanisms using computational systems biology approaches. Front Immunol 2024; 14:1282859. [PMID: 38414974 PMCID: PMC10897000 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1282859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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Introduction The COVID-19 Disease Map project is a large-scale community effort uniting 277 scientists from 130 Institutions around the globe. We use high-quality, mechanistic content describing SARS-CoV-2-host interactions and develop interoperable bioinformatic pipelines for novel target identification and drug repurposing. Methods Extensive community work allowed an impressive step forward in building interfaces between Systems Biology tools and platforms. Our framework can link biomolecules from omics data analysis and computational modelling to dysregulated pathways in a cell-, tissue- or patient-specific manner. Drug repurposing using text mining and AI-assisted analysis identified potential drugs, chemicals and microRNAs that could target the identified key factors. Results Results revealed drugs already tested for anti-COVID-19 efficacy, providing a mechanistic context for their mode of action, and drugs already in clinical trials for treating other diseases, never tested against COVID-19. Discussion The key advance is that the proposed framework is versatile and expandable, offering a significant upgrade in the arsenal for virus-host interactions and other complex pathologies.
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- Anna Niarakis
- Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Européen de Recherche pour la Polyarthrite rhumatoïde - Genhotel, Univ Evry, Evry, France
- Lifeware Group, Inria, Saclay-île de France, Palaiseau, France
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
- St. John’s University, Queens, NY, United States
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Faculty of Applied Computer Sciences & Biosciences, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida, Germany
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Center for Biosciences and Informatics, Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Creative Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
- Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Preclinical Research and Advanced Diagnostic, National Institute for Infectious Diseases’ Lazzaro Spallanzani’ - IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Computational Medicine Platform, Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, Sevilla, Spain
- Computational Systems Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain
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- Computational Medicine Platform, Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, Sevilla, Spain
- Computational Systems Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain
- Bioinformatics in Rare Diseases (BiER), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), FPS, Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain
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- Computational Medicine Platform, Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, Sevilla, Spain
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- Lifeware Group, Inria, Saclay-île de France, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Lifeware Group, Inria, Saclay-île de France, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Européen de Recherche pour la Polyarthrite rhumatoïde - Genhotel, Univ Evry, Evry, France
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC.), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Boston, MA, United States
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- Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Boston, MA, United States
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- Computational Biology Branch, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Medbioinformatics Solutions SL, Barcelona, Spain
- Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Medbioinformatics Solutions SL, Barcelona, Spain
- Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Aomi, Tokyo, Japan
- Com. Bio Big Data Open Innovation Lab. (CBBD-OIL), AIST, Aomi, Tokyo, Japan
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Institute for Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Integrative Bioinformatics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, NYU. Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, United States
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- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, NYU. Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Computational Medicine Platform, Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, Sevilla, Spain
- Computational Systems Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain
- Bioinformatics in Rare Diseases (BiER), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), FPS, Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain
- FPS/ELIXIR-es, Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC.), Barcelona, Spain
- I.C.R.E.A., Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology, at the Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institut Curie, P.S.L. Research University, Paris, France
- INSERM, Paris, France
- MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CBIO-Centre for Computational Biology, Paris, France
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- Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Koole L, Martinez-Martinez P, Amelsvoort TV, Evelo CT, Ehrhart F. Interactive neuroinflammation pathways and transcriptomics-based identification of drugs and chemical compounds for schizophrenia. World J Biol Psychiatry 2024; 25:116-129. [PMID: 37961844 DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2023.2281514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the population. Accumulating evidence indicates that neuroinflammation is involved in the pathology of these disorders by altering neurodevelopmental processes and specifically affecting glutamatergic signalling and astrocytic functioning. The aim of this study was to curate interactive biological pathways involved in schizophrenia for the identification of novel pharmacological targets implementing pathway, gene ontology, and network analysis. METHODS Neuroinflammatory pathways were created using PathVisio and published in WikiPathways. A transcriptomics dataset, originally created by Narla et al. was selected for data visualisation and analysis. Transcriptomics data was visualised within pathways and networks, extended with transcription factors, pathways, and drugs. Network hubs were determined based on degrees of connectivity. RESULTS Glutamatergic, immune, and astrocytic signalling as well as extracellular matrix reorganisation were altered in schizophrenia while we did not find an effect on the complement system. Pharmacological agents that target the glutamate receptor subunits, inflammatory mediators, and metabolic enzymes were identified. CONCLUSIONS New neuroinflammatory pathways incorporating the extracellular matrix, glutamatergic neurons, and astrocytes in the aetiology of schizophrenia were established. Transcriptomics based network analysis provided novel targets, including extra-synaptic glutamate receptors, glutamate transporters and extracellular matrix molecules that can be evaluated for therapeutic strategies.
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- Lisa Koole
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, MHeNs, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, MHeNs, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, MHeNs, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, MHeNs, FHML, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Agrawal A, Balcı H, Hanspers K, Coort SL, Martens M, Slenter DN, Ehrhart F, Digles D, Waagmeester A, Wassink I, Abbassi-Daloii T, Lopes EN, Iyer A, Acosta J, Willighagen LG, Nishida K, Riutta A, Basaric H, Evelo C, Willighagen EL, Kutmon M, Pico A. WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:D679-D689. [PMID: 37941138 PMCID: PMC10767877 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
Abstract
WikiPathways (wikipathways.org) is an open-source biological pathway database. Collaboration and open science are pivotal to the success of WikiPathways. Here we highlight the continuing efforts supporting WikiPathways, content growth and collaboration among pathway researchers. As an evolving database, there is a growing need for WikiPathways to address and overcome technical challenges. In this direction, WikiPathways has undergone major restructuring, enabling a renewed approach for sharing and curating pathway knowledge, thus providing stability for the future of community pathway curation. The website has been redesigned to improve and enhance user experience. This next generation of WikiPathways continues to support existing features while improving maintainability of the database and facilitating community input by providing new functionality and leveraging automation.
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- Ayushi Agrawal
- Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epigenetics. Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
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- Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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Shin W, Kutmon M, Mina E, van Amelsvoort T, Evelo CT, Ehrhart F. Exploring pathway interactions to detect molecular mechanisms of disease: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2023; 18:335. [PMID: 37872602 PMCID: PMC10594698 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-023-02953-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) is a genetic disorder characterized by the deletion of adjacent genes at a location specified as q11.2 of chromosome 22, resulting in an array of clinical phenotypes including autistic spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, congenital heart defects, and immune deficiency. Many characteristics of the disorder are known, such as the phenotypic variability of the disease and the biological processes associated with it; however, the exact and systemic molecular mechanisms between the deleted area and its resulting clinical phenotypic expression, for example that of neuropsychiatric diseases, are not yet fully understood. RESULTS Using previously published transcriptomics data (GEO:GSE59216), we constructed two datasets: one set compares 22q11DS patients experiencing neuropsychiatric diseases versus healthy controls, and the other set 22q11DS patients without neuropsychiatric diseases versus healthy controls. We modified and applied the pathway interaction method, originally proposed by Kelder et al. (2011), on a network created using the WikiPathways pathway repository and the STRING protein-protein interaction database. We identified genes and biological processes that were exclusively associated with the development of neuropsychiatric diseases among the 22q11DS patients. Compared with the 22q11DS patients without neuropsychiatric diseases, patients experiencing neuropsychiatric diseases showed significant overrepresentation of regulated genes involving the natural killer cell function and the PI3K/Akt signalling pathway, with affected genes being closely associated with downregulation of CRK like proto-oncogene adaptor protein. Both the pathway interaction and the pathway overrepresentation analysis observed the disruption of the same biological processes, even though the exact lists of genes collected by the two methods were different. CONCLUSIONS Using the pathway interaction method, we were able to detect a molecular network that could possibly explain the development of neuropsychiatric diseases among the 22q11DS patients. This way, our method was able to complement the pathway overrepresentation analysis, by filling the knowledge gaps on how the affected pathways are linked to the original deletion on chromosome 22. We expect our pathway interaction method could be used for problems with similar contexts, where complex genetic mechanisms need to be identified to explain the resulting phenotypic plasticity.
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- Woosub Shin
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.
- Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Roozen S, Ehrhart F. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the risk of crime. Handb Clin Neurol 2023; 197:197-204. [PMID: 37633710 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821375-9.00013-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/28/2023]
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are an important preventable global health concern. FASD is an umbrella term describing a range of mild to severe cognitive and behavioral problems among individuals prenatally exposed to alcohol. Alcohol causes FASD by interfering with molecular pathways during fetal development involving increased oxidative stress, disturbed organ development, and change of epigenetic gene expression control. Neuroimaging studies into FASD show several neuropathological abnormalities including abnormal brain structure, cortical development, white matter microstructure, and functional connectivity. Individuals with FASD experience a wide range of cognitive and behavioral challenges. Risks of violent behavior, criminality, and criminalization have been indicated by a limited number of epidemiological studies. The relationship between prenatal alcohol exposure and the increase of these risks remains unclear. This is further impeded by the complexity of an FASD diagnosis, the lack of a clear dose-response relationship of brain impact to alcohol use, and the lack of a clear FASD behavioral phenotype. Literature with respect to FASD and crime is still in its infancy. From the studies available, it is recommended to pay close attention to individuals with FASD and the relation with the criminal justice system and the risk for discrimination. There is a clear need for FASD-related stigma reduction programs within the correctional system. Further investigations into reliable biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment are needed.
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- Sylvia Roozen
- Governor Kremers Centre-Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM/MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Silva AI, Ehrhart F, Ulfarsson MO, Stefansson H, Stefansson K, Wilkinson LS, Hall J, Linden DEJ. Neuroimaging Findings in Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants: Identifying Molecular Pathways to Convergent Phenotypes. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 92:341-361. [PMID: 35659384 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Genomic copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with a high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. A growing body of genetic studies suggests that these high-risk genetic variants converge in common molecular pathways and that common pathways also exist across clinically distinct disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. A key question is how common molecular mechanisms converge into similar clinical outcomes. We review emerging evidence for convergent cognitive and brain phenotypes across distinct CNVs. Multiple CNVs were shown to have similar effects on core sensory, cognitive, and motor traits. Emerging data from multisite neuroimaging studies have provided valuable information on how these CNVs affect brain structure and function. However, most of these studies examined one CNV at a time, making it difficult to fully understand the proportion of shared brain effects. Recent studies have started to combine neuroimaging data from multiple CNV carriers and identified similar brain effects across CNVs. Some early findings also support convergence in CNV animal models. Systems biology, through integration of multilevel data, provides new insights into convergent molecular mechanisms across genetic risk variants (e.g., altered synaptic activity). However, the link between such key molecular mechanisms and convergent psychiatric phenotypes is still unknown. To better understand this link, we need new approaches that integrate human molecular data with neuroimaging, cognitive, and animal model data, while taking into account critical developmental time points. Identifying risk mechanisms across genetic loci can elucidate the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders and identify new therapeutic targets for cross-disorder applications.
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- Ana I Silva
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- deCODE genetics, Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland; Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
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Martens M, Kreidl F, Ehrhart F, Jean D, Mei M, Mortensen HM, Nash A, Nymark P, Evelo CT, Cerciello F. A Community-Driven, Openly Accessible Molecular Pathway Integrating Knowledge on Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. Front Oncol 2022; 12:849640. [PMID: 35558518 PMCID: PMC9088009 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.849640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a highly aggressive malignancy mainly triggered by exposure to asbestos and characterized by complex biology. A significant body of knowledge has been generated over the decades by the research community which has improved our understanding of the disease toward prevention, diagnostic opportunities and new treatments. Omics technologies are opening for additional levels of information and hypotheses. Given the growing complexity and technological spread of biological knowledge in MPM, there is an increasing need for an integrating tool that may allow scientists to access the information and analyze data in a simple and interactive way. We envisioned that a platform to capture this widespread and fast-growing body of knowledge in a machine-readable and simple visual format together with tools for automated large-scale data analysis could be an important support for the work of the general scientist in MPM and for the community to share, critically discuss, distribute and eventually advance scientific results. Toward this goal, with the support of experts in the field and informed by existing literature, we have developed the first version of a molecular pathway model of MPM in the biological pathway database WikiPathways. This provides a visual and interactive overview of interactions and connections between the most central genes, proteins and molecular pathways known to be involved or altered in MPM. Currently, 455 unique genes and 247 interactions are included, derived after stringent manual curation of an initial 39 literature references. The pathway model provides a directly employable research tool with links to common databases and repositories for the exploration and the analysis of omics data. The resource is publicly available in the WikiPathways database (Wikipathways : WP5087) and continues to be under development and curation by the community, enabling the scientists in MPM to actively participate in the prioritization of shared biological knowledge.
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- Marvin Martens
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Inserm, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Functional Genomics of Solid Tumors, Paris, France
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- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States.,Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
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- Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
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- National Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) are a group of abnormalities affecting the kidneys and their outflow tracts. CAKUT patients display a large clinical variability as well as a complex aetiology. Only 5% to 20% of the cases have a monogenic origin. It is thereby suspected that interactions of both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the disease. Vitamins are among the environmental factors that are considered for CAKUT aetiology. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether vitamin A or vitamin D could have a role in CAKUT aetiology. For this purpose we collected vitamin A and vitamin D target genes and computed their overlap with CAKUT-related gene sets. We observed limited overlap between vitamin D targets and CAKUT-related gene sets. We however observed that vitamin A target genes significantly overlap with multiple CAKUT-related gene sets, including CAKUT causal and differentially expressed genes, and genes involved in renal system development. Overall, these results indicate that an excess or deficiency of vitamin A might be relevant to a broad range of urogenital abnormalities.
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- Ozan Ozisik
- Aix Marseille University, Inserm, MMG, Marseille, 13385, France
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM/MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Aix Marseille University, Inserm, MMG, Marseille, 13385, France
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
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Ostaszewski M, Niarakis A, Mazein A, Kuperstein I, Phair R, Orta-Resendiz A, Singh V, Aghamiri SS, Acencio ML, Glaab E, Ruepp A, Fobo G, Montrone C, Brauner B, Frishman G, Monraz Gómez LC, Somers J, Hoch M, Kumar Gupta S, Scheel J, Borlinghaus H, Czauderna T, Schreiber F, Montagud A, Ponce de Leon M, Funahashi A, Hiki Y, Hiroi N, Yamada TG, Dräger A, Renz A, Naveez M, Bocskei Z, Messina F, Börnigen D, Fergusson L, Conti M, Rameil M, Nakonecnij V, Vanhoefer J, Schmiester L, Wang M, Ackerman EE, Shoemaker JE, Zucker J, Oxford K, Teuton J, Kocakaya E, Summak GY, Hanspers K, Kutmon M, Coort S, Eijssen L, Ehrhart F, Rex DAB, Slenter D, Martens M, Pham N, Haw R, Jassal B, Matthews L, Orlic-Milacic M, Senff-Ribeiro A, Rothfels K, Shamovsky V, Stephan R, Sevilla C, Varusai T, Ravel JM, Fraser R, Ortseifen V, Marchesi S, Gawron P, Smula E, Heirendt L, Satagopam V, Wu G, Riutta A, Golebiewski M, Owen S, Goble C, Hu X, Overall RW, Maier D, Bauch A, Gyori BM, Bachman JA, Vega C, Grouès V, Vazquez M, Porras P, Licata L, Iannuccelli M, Sacco F, Nesterova A, Yuryev A, de Waard A, Turei D, Luna A, Babur O, Soliman S, Valdeolivas A, Esteban-Medina M, Peña-Chilet M, Rian K, Helikar T, Puniya BL, Modos D, Treveil A, Olbei M, De Meulder B, Ballereau S, Dugourd A, Naldi A, Noël V, Calzone L, Sander C, Demir E, Korcsmaros T, Freeman TC, Augé F, Beckmann JS, Hasenauer J, Wolkenhauer O, Willighagen EL, Pico AR, Evelo CT, Gillespie ME, Stein LD, Hermjakob H, D'Eustachio P, Saez-Rodriguez J, Dopazo J, Valencia A, Kitano H, Barillot E, Auffray C, Balling R, Schneider R. COVID-19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of virus-host interaction mechanisms. Mol Syst Biol 2021; 17:e10851. [PMID: 34939300 PMCID: PMC8696085 DOI: 10.15252/msb.202110851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Ostaszewski M, Niarakis A, Mazein A, Kuperstein I, Phair R, Orta‐Resendiz A, Singh V, Aghamiri SS, Acencio ML, Glaab E, Ruepp A, Fobo G, Montrone C, Brauner B, Frishman G, Monraz Gómez LC, Somers J, Hoch M, Kumar Gupta S, Scheel J, Borlinghaus H, Czauderna T, Schreiber F, Montagud A, Ponce de Leon M, Funahashi A, Hiki Y, Hiroi N, Yamada TG, Dräger A, Renz A, Naveez M, Bocskei Z, Messina F, Börnigen D, Fergusson L, Conti M, Rameil M, Nakonecnij V, Vanhoefer J, Schmiester L, Wang M, Ackerman EE, Shoemaker JE, Zucker J, Oxford K, Teuton J, Kocakaya E, Summak GY, Hanspers K, Kutmon M, Coort S, Eijssen L, Ehrhart F, Rex DAB, Slenter D, Martens M, Pham N, Haw R, Jassal B, Matthews L, Orlic‐Milacic M, Senff Ribeiro A, Rothfels K, Shamovsky V, Stephan R, Sevilla C, Varusai T, Ravel J, Fraser R, Ortseifen V, Marchesi S, Gawron P, Smula E, Heirendt L, Satagopam V, Wu G, Riutta A, Golebiewski M, Owen S, Goble C, Hu X, Overall RW, Maier D, Bauch A, Gyori BM, Bachman JA, Vega C, Grouès V, Vazquez M, Porras P, Licata L, Iannuccelli M, Sacco F, Nesterova A, Yuryev A, de Waard A, Turei D, Luna A, Babur O, Soliman S, Valdeolivas A, Esteban‐Medina M, Peña‐Chilet M, Rian K, Helikar T, Puniya BL, Modos D, Treveil A, Olbei M, De Meulder B, Ballereau S, Dugourd A, Naldi A, Noël V, Calzone L, Sander C, Demir E, Korcsmaros T, Freeman TC, Augé F, Beckmann JS, Hasenauer J, Wolkenhauer O, Wilighagen EL, Pico AR, Evelo CT, Gillespie ME, Stein LD, Hermjakob H, D'Eustachio P, Saez‐Rodriguez J, Dopazo J, Valencia A, Kitano H, Barillot E, Auffray C, Balling R, Schneider R. COVID19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of virus-host interaction mechanisms. Mol Syst Biol 2021; 17:e10387. [PMID: 34664389 PMCID: PMC8524328 DOI: 10.15252/msb.202110387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
We need to effectively combine the knowledge from surging literature with complex datasets to propose mechanistic models of SARS-CoV-2 infection, improving data interpretation and predicting key targets of intervention. Here, we describe a large-scale community effort to build an open access, interoperable and computable repository of COVID-19 molecular mechanisms. The COVID-19 Disease Map (C19DMap) is a graphical, interactive representation of disease-relevant molecular mechanisms linking many knowledge sources. Notably, it is a computational resource for graph-based analyses and disease modelling. To this end, we established a framework of tools, platforms and guidelines necessary for a multifaceted community of biocurators, domain experts, bioinformaticians and computational biologists. The diagrams of the C19DMap, curated from the literature, are integrated with relevant interaction and text mining databases. We demonstrate the application of network analysis and modelling approaches by concrete examples to highlight new testable hypotheses. This framework helps to find signatures of SARS-CoV-2 predisposition, treatment response or prioritisation of drug candidates. Such an approach may help deal with new waves of COVID-19 or similar pandemics in the long-term perspective.
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- Marek Ostaszewski
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Université Paris‐SaclayLaboratoire Européen de Recherche pour la Polyarthrite rhumatoïde ‐ GenhotelUniv EvryEvryFrance
- Lifeware GroupInria Saclay‐Ile de FrancePalaiseauFrance
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Institut CuriePSL Research UniversityParisFrance
- INSERMParisFrance
- MINES ParisTechPSL Research UniversityParisFrance
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- Integrative Bioinformatics, Inc.Mountain ViewCAUSA
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- Institut PasteurUniversité de Paris, Unité HIVInflammation et PersistanceParisFrance
- Bio Sorbonne Paris CitéUniversité de ParisParisFrance
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- Université Paris‐SaclayLaboratoire Européen de Recherche pour la Polyarthrite rhumatoïde ‐ GenhotelUniv EvryEvryFrance
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- Inserm‐ Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicaleParisFrance
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)NeuherbergGermany
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- Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)NeuherbergGermany
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- Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)NeuherbergGermany
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- Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)NeuherbergGermany
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- Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)Helmholtz Zentrum München‐German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)NeuherbergGermany
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- Institut CuriePSL Research UniversityParisFrance
- INSERMParisFrance
- MINES ParisTechPSL Research UniversityParisFrance
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- Department of Molecular and Medical GeneticsOregon Health & Sciences UniversityPortlandORUSA
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- Department of Systems Biology and BioinformaticsUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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- Department of Systems Biology and BioinformaticsUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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- Department of Computer and Information ScienceUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
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- Faculty of Information TechnologyDepartment of Human‐Centred ComputingMonash UniversityClaytonVic.Australia
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- Department of Computer and Information ScienceUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
- Faculty of Information TechnologyDepartment of Human‐Centred ComputingMonash UniversityClaytonVic.Australia
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- Department of Biosciences and InformaticsKeio UniversityYokohamaJapan
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- Department of Biosciences and InformaticsKeio UniversityYokohamaJapan
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- Graduate School of Media and GovernanceResearch Institute at SFCKeio UniversityKanagawaJapan
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- Department of Biosciences and InformaticsKeio UniversityYokohamaJapan
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- Computational Systems Biology of Infections and Antimicrobial‐Resistant PathogensInstitute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)University of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner siteTübingenGermany
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- Computational Systems Biology of Infections and Antimicrobial‐Resistant PathogensInstitute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)University of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Department of Systems Biology and BioinformaticsUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
- Institute of Applied Computer SystemsRiga Technical UniversityRigaLatvia
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- Sanofi R&DTranslational SciencesChilly‐MazarinFrance
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- Dipartimento di Epidemiologia Ricerca Pre‐Clinica e Diagnostica AvanzataNational Institute for Infectious Diseases 'Lazzaro Spallanzani' I.R.C.C.S.RomeItaly
- COVID‐19 INMI Network Medicine for IDs Study GroupNational Institute for Infectious Diseases 'Lazzaro Spallanzani' I.R.C.C.SRomeItaly
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- Bioinformatics Core FacilityUniversitätsklinikum Hamburg‐EppendorfHamburgGermany
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary MedicineThe University of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
- Center for MathematicsChair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological SystemsTechnische Universität MünchenGarchingGermany
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum EngineeringUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
- Department of Computational and Systems BiologyUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPAUSA
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- Institute of Data Science and BiotechnologyGladstone InstitutesSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio)Maastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Maastricht University Medical CentreMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Maastricht University Medical CentreMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
- Universidade Federal do ParanáCuritibaBrasil
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL‐EBI)European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHinxton, CambridgeshireUK
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL‐EBI)European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHinxton, CambridgeshireUK
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- INSERM UMR_S 1256Nutrition, Genetics, and Environmental Risk Exposure (NGERE)Faculty of Medicine of NancyUniversity of LorraineNancyFrance
- Laboratoire de génétique médicaleCHRU NancyNancyFrance
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- Queen's Medical Research InstituteThe University of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Senior Research Group in Genome Research of Industrial MicroorganismsCenter for BiotechnologyBielefeld UniversityBielefeldGermany
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- Department of Surgical ScienceUppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
- Institute of Computing SciencePoznan University of TechnologyPoznanPoland
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical EpidemiologyOregon Health & Science UniversityPortlandORUSA
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- Institute of Data Science and BiotechnologyGladstone InstitutesSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Computer ScienceThe University of ManchesterManchesterUK
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- Department of Computer ScienceThe University of ManchesterManchesterUK
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- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)HeidelbergGermany
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) DresdenDresdenGermany
- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)Technische Universität DresdenDresdenGermany
- Institute for BiologyHumboldt University of BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Harvard Medical SchoolLaboratory of Systems PharmacologyBostonMAUSA
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- Harvard Medical SchoolLaboratory of Systems PharmacologyBostonMAUSA
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL‐EBI)European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHinxton, CambridgeshireUK
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of Rome Tor VergataRomeItaly
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of Rome Tor VergataRomeItaly
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- Institute for Computational BiomedicineHeidelberg UniversityHeidelbergGermany
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- cBio Center, Divisions of Biostatistics and Computational BiologyDepartment of Data SciencesDana‐Farber Cancer InstituteBostonMAUSA
- Department of Cell BiologyHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMAUSA
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- Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of Massachusetts BostonBostonMAUSA
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- Institute for Computational BiomedicineHeidelberg UniversityHeidelbergGermany
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- Clinical Bioinformatics AreaFundación Progreso y Salud (FPS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Computational Systems Medicine GroupInstitute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
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- Clinical Bioinformatics AreaFundación Progreso y Salud (FPS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Computational Systems Medicine GroupInstitute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Bioinformatics in Rare Diseases (BiER)Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)FPS, Hospital Virgen del RocíoSevillaSpain
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- Clinical Bioinformatics AreaFundación Progreso y Salud (FPS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Computational Systems Medicine GroupInstitute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNEUSA
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- Quadram Institute BioscienceNorwichUK
- Earlham InstituteNorwichUK
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- Quadram Institute BioscienceNorwichUK
- Earlham InstituteNorwichUK
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- Quadram Institute BioscienceNorwichUK
- Earlham InstituteNorwichUK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge InstituteUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Institute for Computational BiomedicineHeidelberg UniversityHeidelbergGermany
- Institute of Experimental Medicine and Systems BiologyFaculty of Medicine, RWTHAachen UniversityAachenGermany
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- Institut CuriePSL Research UniversityParisFrance
- INSERMParisFrance
- MINES ParisTechPSL Research UniversityParisFrance
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- Institut CuriePSL Research UniversityParisFrance
- INSERMParisFrance
- MINES ParisTechPSL Research UniversityParisFrance
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- cBio Center, Divisions of Biostatistics and Computational BiologyDepartment of Data SciencesDana‐Farber Cancer InstituteBostonMAUSA
- Department of Cell BiologyHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMAUSA
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- Department of Molecular and Medical GeneticsOregon Health & Sciences UniversityPortlandORUSA
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- The Roslin InstituteUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Sanofi R&DTranslational SciencesChilly‐MazarinFrance
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental HealthInstitute of Computational BiologyNeuherbergGermany
- Interdisciplinary Research Unit Mathematics and Life SciencesUniversity of BonnBonnGermany
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- Department of Systems Biology and BioinformaticsUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Institute of Data Science and BiotechnologyGladstone InstitutesSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Bioinformatics ‐ BiGCaTNUTRIMMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio)Maastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
- St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesQueensNYUSA
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- MaRS CentreOntario Institute for Cancer ResearchTorontoONCanada
- Department of Molecular GeneticsUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL‐EBI)European Molecular Biology LaboratoryHinxton, CambridgeshireUK
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- Clinical Bioinformatics AreaFundación Progreso y Salud (FPS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Computational Systems Medicine GroupInstitute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS)Hospital Virgen del RocioSevillaSpain
- Bioinformatics in Rare Diseases (BiER)Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)FPS, Hospital Virgen del RocíoSevillaSpain
- FPS/ELIXIR‐esHospital Virgen del RocíoSevillaSpain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)BarcelonaSpain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)BarcelonaSpain
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- Systems Biology InstituteTokyoJapan
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate SchoolOkinawaJapan
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- Institut CuriePSL Research UniversityParisFrance
- INSERMParisFrance
- MINES ParisTechPSL Research UniversityParisFrance
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge InstituteUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems BiomedicineUniversity of LuxembourgEsch‐sur‐AlzetteLuxembourg
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Hanspers K, Kutmon M, Coort SL, Digles D, Dupuis LJ, Ehrhart F, Hu F, Lopes EN, Martens M, Pham N, Shin W, Slenter DN, Waagmeester A, Willighagen EL, Winckers LA, Evelo CT, Pico AR. Ten simple rules for creating reusable pathway models for computational analysis and visualization. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1009226. [PMID: 34411100 PMCID: PMC8375987 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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- Kristina Hanspers
- Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Departamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics—BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Abstract
Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) are a group of abnormalities affecting the kidneys and their outflow tracts. CAKUT patients display a large clinical variability as well as a complex aetiology. Only 5% to 20% of the cases have a monogenic origin. It is thereby suspected that interactions of both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the disease. Vitamins are among the environmental factors that are considered for CAKUT aetiology. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether vitamin A or vitamin D could have a role in CAKUT aetiology. For this purpose we collected vitamin A and vitamin D target genes and computed their overlap with CAKUT-related gene sets. We observed limited overlap between vitamin D targets and CAKUT-related gene sets. We however observed that vitamin A target genes significantly overlap with multiple CAKUT-related gene sets, including CAKUT causal and differentially expressed genes, and genes involved in renal system development. Overall, these results indicate that an excess or deficiency of vitamin A might be relevant to a broad range of urogenital abnormalities.
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- Ozan Ozisik
- Aix Marseille University, Inserm, MMG, Marseille, 13385, France
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM/MHeNs, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Aix Marseille University, Inserm, MMG, Marseille, 13385, France
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
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Ehrhart F, Jacobsen A, Rigau M, Bosio M, Kaliyaperumal R, Laros JFJ, Willighagen EL, Valencia A, Roos M, Capella-Gutierrez S, Curfs LMG, Evelo CT. A catalogue of 863 Rett-syndrome-causing MECP2 mutations and lessons learned from data integration. Sci Data 2021; 8:10. [PMID: 33452270 PMCID: PMC7810705 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00794-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare neurological disorder mostly caused by a genetic variation in MECP2. Making new MECP2 variants and the related phenotypes available provides data for better understanding of disease mechanisms and faster identification of variants for diagnosis. This is, however, currently hampered by the lack of interoperability between genotype-phenotype databases. Here, we demonstrate on the example of MECP2 in RTT that by making the genotype-phenotype data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), we can facilitate prioritization and analysis of variants. In total, 10,968 MECP2 variants were successfully integrated. Among these variants 863 unique confirmed RTT causing and 209 unique confirmed benign variants were found. This dataset was used for comparison of pathogenicity predicting tools, protein consequences, and identification of ambiguous variants. Prediction tools generally recognised the RTT causing and benign variants, however, there was a broad range of overlap Nineteen variants were identified that were annotated as both disease-causing and benign, suggesting that there are additional factors in these cases contributing to disease development. Measurement(s) | Rett syndrome • phenotype • MECP2 Gene | Technology Type(s) | digital curation • network analysis | Sample Characteristic - Organism | Homo sapiens |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.13359476
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, MHeNS School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. .,GKC - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, MHeNS School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- GKC - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, MHeNS School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,GKC - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Martens M, Ammar A, Riutta A, Waagmeester A, Slenter D, Hanspers K, A. Miller R, Digles D, Lopes E, Ehrhart F, Dupuis LJ, Winckers LA, Coort S, Willighagen EL, Evelo CT, Pico AR, Kutmon M. WikiPathways: connecting communities. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:D613-D621. [PMID: 33211851 PMCID: PMC7779061 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 422] [Impact Index Per Article: 140.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
WikiPathways (https://www.wikipathways.org) is a biological pathway database known for its collaborative nature and open science approaches. With the core idea of the scientific community developing and curating biological knowledge in pathway models, WikiPathways lowers all barriers for accessing and using its content. Increasingly more content creators, initiatives, projects and tools have started using WikiPathways. Central in this growth and increased use of WikiPathways are the various communities that focus on particular subsets of molecular pathways such as for rare diseases and lipid metabolism. Knowledge from published pathway figures helps prioritize pathway development, using optical character and named entity recognition. We show the growth of WikiPathways over the last three years, highlight the new communities and collaborations of pathway authors and curators, and describe various technologies to connect to external resources and initiatives. The road toward a sustainable, community-driven pathway database goes through integration with other resources such as Wikidata and allowing more use, curation and redistribution of WikiPathways content.
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- Marvin Martens
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry/Pharmacoinformatics Research Group, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Departamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, 6229 EN Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, 6229 EN Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Ehrhart F, Coort SL, Eijssen L, Cirillo E, Smeets EE, Bahram Sangani N, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG. Integrated analysis of human transcriptome data for Rett syndrome finds a network of involved genes. World J Biol Psychiatry 2020; 21:712-725. [PMID: 30907210 DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2019.1593501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare disorder causing severe intellectual and physical disability. The cause is a mutation in the gene coding for the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2), a multifunctional regulator protein. Purpose of the study was integration and investigation of multiple gene expression profiles in human cells with impaired MECP2 gene to obtain a robust, data-driven insight in molecular disease mechanisms. METHODS Information about changed gene expression was extracted from five previously published studies, integrated and the resulting differentially expressed genes were analysed using overrepresentation analysis of biological pathways and gene ontology, and network analysis. RESULTS We identified a set of genes, which are significantly changed not in all but several transcriptomics datasets and were not mentioned in the context of RTT before. We found that these genes are involved in several processes and molecular pathways known to be affected in RTT. Integrating transcription factors we identified a possible link how MECP2 regulates cytoskeleton organisation via MEF2C and CAPG. CONCLUSIONS Integrative analysis of omics data and prior knowledge databases is a powerful approach to identify links between mutation and phenotype especially in rare disease research where little data is available.
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- GCK - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Pediatrics, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Ehrhart F, Janssen KJM, Coort SL, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG. Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome: Visualisation of the molecular pathways for two chromosomal disorders. World J Biol Psychiatry 2019; 20:670-682. [PMID: 29425059 DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2018.1439594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Objectives: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are two syndromes that are caused by the same chromosomal deletion on 15q11.2-q13. Due to methylation patterns, different genes are responsible for the two distinct phenotypes resulting in the disorders. Patients of both disorders exhibit hypotonia in neonatal stage, delay in development and hypopigmentation. Typical features for PWS include hyperphagia, which leads to obesity, the major cause of mortality, and hypogonadism. In AS, patients suffer from a more severe developmental delay, they have a distinctive behaviour that is often described as unnaturally happy, and a tendency for epileptic seizures. For both syndromes, we identified and visualised molecular downstream pathways of the deleted genes that could give insight on the development of the clinical features.Methods: This was done by consulting literature, genome browsers and pathway databases to identify molecular interactions and to construct downstream pathways.Results: A pathway visualisation was created and uploaded to the open pathway database WikiPathways covering all molecular pathways that were found.Conclusions: The visualisation of the downstream pathways of PWS- and AS-deleted genes shows that some of the typical symptoms are caused by multiple genes and reveals critical gaps in the current knowledge.
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- GCK, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- GCK, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Mantovani A, Carta C, Taruscio D, Ehrhart F, Evelo CT. Using adverse outcome pathways to identify exogenous risk factors for rare diseases. Reprod Toxicol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2019.07.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Slenter DN, Kutmon M, Hanspers K, Riutta A, Windsor J, Nunes N, Mélius J, Cirillo E, Coort SL, Digles D, Ehrhart F, Giesbertz P, Kalafati M, Martens M, Miller R, Nishida K, Rieswijk L, Waagmeester A, Eijssen LMT, Evelo CT, Pico AR, Willighagen EL. WikiPathways: a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:D661-D667. [PMID: 29136241 PMCID: PMC5753270 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 554] [Impact Index Per Article: 110.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
WikiPathways (wikipathways.org) captures the collective knowledge represented in biological pathways. By providing a database in a curated, machine readable way, omics data analysis and visualization is enabled. WikiPathways and other pathway databases are used to analyze experimental data by research groups in many fields. Due to the open and collaborative nature of the WikiPathways platform, our content keeps growing and is getting more accurate, making WikiPathways a reliable and rich pathway database. Previously, however, the focus was primarily on genes and proteins, leaving many metabolites with only limited annotation. Recent curation efforts focused on improving the annotation of metabolism and metabolic pathways by associating unmapped metabolites with database identifiers and providing more detailed interaction knowledge. Here, we report the outcomes of the continued growth and curation efforts, such as a doubling of the number of annotated metabolite nodes in WikiPathways. Furthermore, we introduce an OpenAPI documentation of our web services and the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) annotation of resources to increase the interoperability of the knowledge encoded in these pathways and experimental omics data. New search options, monthly downloads, more links to metabolite databases, and new portals make pathway knowledge more effortlessly accessible to individual researchers and research communities.
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- Denise N Slenter
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- University of Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Chair of Nutritional Physiology, Technische Universität München, 85350 Freising, Germany
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Biochemical Simulation, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Suita, Osaka 565-0874, Japan
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Micelio, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.,School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Miller RA, Ehrhart F, Eijssen LMT, Slenter DN, Curfs LMG, Evelo CT, Willighagen EL, Kutmon M. Beyond Pathway Analysis: Identification of Active Subnetworks in Rett Syndrome. Front Genet 2019; 10:59. [PMID: 30847002 PMCID: PMC6393361 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Pathway and network approaches are valuable tools in analysis and interpretation of large complex omics data. Even in the field of rare diseases, like Rett syndrome, omics data are available, and the maximum use of such data requires sophisticated tools for comprehensive analysis and visualization of the results. Pathway analysis with differential gene expression data has proven to be extremely successful in identifying affected processes in disease conditions. In this type of analysis, pathways from different databases like WikiPathways and Reactome are used as separate, independent entities. Here, we show for the first time how these pathway models can be used and integrated into one large network using the WikiPathways RDF containing all human WikiPathways and Reactome pathways, to perform network analysis on transcriptomics data. This network was imported into the network analysis tool Cytoscape to perform active submodule analysis. Using a publicly available Rett syndrome gene expression dataset from frontal and temporal cortex, classical enrichment analysis, including pathway and Gene Ontology analysis, revealed mainly immune response, neuron specific and extracellular matrix processes. Our active module analysis provided a valuable extension of the analysis prominently showing the regulatory mechanism of MECP2, especially on DNA maintenance, cell cycle, transcription, and translation. In conclusion, using pathway models for classical enrichment and more advanced network analysis enables a more comprehensive analysis of gene expression data and provides novel results.
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- Ryan A. Miller
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- GKC-Rett Expertise Centre, MUMC+, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- GKC-Rett Expertise Centre, MUMC+, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Ehrhart F, Roozen S, Verbeek J, Koek G, Kok G, van Kranen H, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG. Review and gap analysis: molecular pathways leading to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Mol Psychiatry 2019; 24:10-17. [PMID: 29892052 PMCID: PMC6325721 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0095-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Alcohol exposure during pregnancy affects the development of the fetus in various ways and may lead to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). FASD is one of the leading preventable forms of neurodevelopmental disorders. In the light of prevention and early intervention, knowledge on how ethanol exposure induces fetal damage is urgently needed. Besides direct ethanol and acetaldehyde toxicity, alcohol increases oxidative stress, and subsequent general effects (e.g., epigenetic imprinting, gene expression, and metabolite levels). The current review provides an overview of the existing knowledge about specific downstream pathways for FASD that affects e.g., the SHH pathway, cholesterol homeostasis, neurotransmitter signaling, and effects on the cytoskeleton. Available human data vary greatly, while animal studies with controlled ethanol exposition are only to a certain limit transferable to humans. The main deficits in knowledge about FASD are the lack of pathophysiological understanding and dose-response relationships, together with the lack of reliable biomarkers for either FASD detection or estimation of susceptibility. In addition to single outcome experiments, omics data should be generated to overcome this problem. Therefore, for future studies we recommend holistic data driven analysis, which allows integrative analyses over multiple levels of genetic variation, transcriptomics and metabolomics data to investigate the whole image of FASD development and to provide insight in potential drug targets for intervention.
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands. .,Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0001 0481 6099grid.5012.6Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of gastroenterology and hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of gastroenterology and hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0001 0481 6099grid.5012.6Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0001 0481 6099grid.5012.6Institute for Public Health Genomics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0001 0481 6099grid.5012.6Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- 0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eGovernor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands ,0000 0004 0480 1382grid.412966.eDepartment of Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Braam W, Ehrhart F, Maas APHM, Smits MG, Curfs L. Low maternal melatonin level increases autism spectrum disorder risk in children. Res Dev Disabil 2018; 82:79-89. [PMID: 29501372 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2017] [Revised: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND It is assumed that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is caused by a combination of de novo inherited variation and common variation as well as environmental factors. It often co-occurs with intellectual disability (ID). Almost eight hundred potential causative genetic variations have been found in ASD patients. However, not one of them is responsible for more than 1% of ASD cases. Low melatonin levels are a frequent finding in ASD patients. Melatonin levels are negatively correlated with severity of autistic impairments, it is important for normal neurodevelopment and is highly effective in protecting DNA from oxidative damage. Melatonin deficiency could be a major factor, and well a common heritable variation, that increases the susceptibility to environmental risk factors for ASD. ASD is already present at birth. As the fetus does not produce melatonin, low maternal melatonin levels may be involved. METHODS We measured 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in urine of 60 mothers of a child with ASD and controls. RESULTS 6-sulfatoxymelatonin levels were significantly lower in mothers with an ASD child than in controls (p = 0.012). CONCLUSIONS Low parental melatonin levels could be one of the contributors to ASD and possibly ID etiology. Our findings need to be duplicated on a larger scale. If our hypothesis is correct, this could lead to policies to detect future parents who are at risk and to treatment strategies to ASD and intellectual disability risk.
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- Wiebe Braam
- 's Heeren Loo, Department Advisium, Wekerom, The Netherlands; Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands.
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- Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands; Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands; Department of Special Education, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands; Multidisciplinary expert centre for sleep-wake disturbances and chronobiology, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
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Here, we present an update of the open-source CyTargetLinker app for Cytoscape ( http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/cytargetlinker) that introduces new automation features. CyTargetLinker provides a simple interface to extend networks with links to relevant data and/or knowledge extracted from so-called linksets. The linksets are provided on the CyTargetLinker website ( https://cytargetlinker.github.io/) or can be custom-made for specific use cases. The new automation feature enables users to programmatically execute the app's functionality in Cytoscape (command line tool) and with external tools (e.g. R, Jupyter, Python, etc). This allows users to share their analysis workflows and therefore increase repeatability and reproducibility. Three use cases demonstrate automated workflows, combinations with other Cytoscape apps and core Cytoscape functionality. We first extend a protein-protein interaction network created with the stringApp, with compound-target interactions and disease-gene annotations. In the second use case, we created a workflow to load differentially expressed genes from an experimental dataset and extend it with gene-pathway associations. Lastly, we chose an example outside the biological domain and used CyTargetLinker to create an author-article-journal network for the five authors of this manuscript using a two-step extension mechanism. With 400 downloads per month in the last year and nearly 20,000 downloads in total, CyTargetLinker shows the adoption and relevance of the app in the field of network biology. In August 2019, the original publication was cited in 83 articles demonstrating the applicability in biomedical research.
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- Martina Kutmon
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
- GKC-Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
- Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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Here, we present an update of the open-source CyTargetLinker app for Cytoscape (
http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/cytargetlinker) that introduces new automation features. CyTargetLinker provides a simple interface to extend networks with links to relevant data and/or knowledge extracted from so-called linksets. The linksets are provided on the CyTargetLinker website (
https://cytargetlinker.github.io/) or can be custom-made for specific use cases. The new automation feature enables users to programmatically execute the app’s functionality in Cytoscape (command line tool) and with external tools (e.g. R, Jupyter, Python, etc). This allows users to share their analysis workflows and therefore increase repeatability and reproducibility. Three use cases demonstrate automated workflows, combinations with other Cytoscape apps and core Cytoscape functionality. We first extend a protein-protein interaction network created with the stringApp, with compound-target interactions and disease-gene annotations. In the second use case, we created a workflow to load differentially expressed genes from an experimental dataset and extend it with gene-pathway associations. Lastly, we chose an example outside the biological domain and used CyTargetLinker to create an author-article-journal network for the five authors of this manuscript using a two-step extension mechanism. With 400 downloads per month in the last year and nearly 20,000 downloads in total, CyTargetLinker shows the adoption and relevance of the app in the field of network biology. In August 2019, the original publication was cited in 83 articles demonstrating the applicability in biomedical research.
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- Martina Kutmon
- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.,GKC-Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.,Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands
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Townend GS, Ehrhart F, van Kranen HJ, Wilkinson M, Jacobsen A, Roos M, Willighagen EL, van Enckevort D, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG. MECP2 variation in Rett syndrome-An overview of current coverage of genetic and phenotype data within existing databases. Hum Mutat 2018; 39:914-924. [PMID: 29704307 PMCID: PMC6033003 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a monogenic rare disorder that causes severe neurological problems. In most cases, it results from a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding methyl-CPG-binding protein 2 (MECP2). Currently, about 900 unique MECP2 variations (benign and pathogenic) have been identified and it is suspected that the different mutations contribute to different levels of disease severity. For researchers and clinicians, it is important that genotype-phenotype information is available to identify disease-causing mutations for diagnosis, to aid in clinical management of the disorder, and to provide counseling for parents. In this study, 13 genotype-phenotype databases were surveyed for their general functionality and availability of RTT-specific MECP2 variation data. For each database, we investigated findability and interoperability alongside practical user functionality, and type and amount of genetic and phenotype data. The main conclusions are that, as well as being challenging to find these databases and specific MECP2 variants held within, interoperability is as yet poorly developed and requires effort to search across databases. Nevertheless, we found several thousand online database entries for MECP2 variations and their associated phenotypes, diagnosis, or predicted variant effects, which is a good starting point for researchers and clinicians who want to provide, annotate, and use the data.
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- Gillian S Townend
- Rett Expertise Centre Netherlands - GKC, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Rett Expertise Centre Netherlands - GKC, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Rett Expertise Centre Netherlands - GKC, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Institute for Public Health Genomics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Rett Expertise Centre Netherlands - GKC, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Rett Expertise Centre Netherlands - GKC, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Karcher S, Willighagen EL, Rumble J, Ehrhart F, Evelo CT, Fritts M, Gaheen S, Harper SL, Hoover MD, Jeliazkova N, Lewinski N, Marchese Robinson RL, Mills KC, Mustad AP, Thomas DG, Tsiliki G, Ogilvie Hendren C. Integration among databases and data sets to support productive nanotechnology: Challenges and recommendations. NanoImpact 2018; 9:85-101. [PMID: 30246165 PMCID: PMC6145474 DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
Many groups within the broad field of nanoinformatics are already developing data repositories and analytical tools driven by their individual organizational goals. Integrating these data resources across disciplines and with non-nanotechnology resources can support multiple objectives by enabling the reuse of the same information. Integration can also serve as the impetus for novel scientific discoveries by providing the framework to support deeper data analyses. This article discusses current data integration practices in nanoinformatics and in comparable mature fields, and nanotechnology-specific challenges impacting data integration. Based on results from a nanoinformatics-community-wide survey, recommendations for achieving integration of existing operational nanotechnology resources are presented. Nanotechnology-specific data integration challenges, if effectively resolved, can foster the application and validation of nanotechnology within and across disciplines. This paper is one of a series of articles by the Nanomaterial Data Curation Initiative that address data issues such as data curation workflows, data completeness and quality, curator responsibilities, and metadata.
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- Sandra Karcher
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
- Center for the Environmental Implications of Nano Technology (CEINT) Duke University, Box 90287, 121 Hudson Hall, Durham, NC 27708-0287, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, UNS50, Box 19, NL-6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- R&R Data Services, 11 Montgomery Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
- CODATA-VAMAS Working Group on Nanomaterials, Paris, France
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, UNS50, Box 19, NL-6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, UNS50, Box 19, NL-6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Research Directorate/Clinical Monitoring Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., NCI Campus at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Clinical Research Directorate/Clinical Monitoring Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., NCI Campus at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888, USA
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- Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
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- School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom
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- RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Nordic Quantum Computing Group AS, Oslo Science Park, P.O. Box 1892, Vika, N-0124 Oslo, Norway
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Street, Zografou, 15780, Athens, Greece
- Institute for the management of Information Systems, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou, Marousi, 15125 Athens, Greece
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- Center for the Environmental Implications of Nano Technology (CEINT) Duke University, Box 90287, 121 Hudson Hall, Durham, NC 27708-0287, USA
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Nymark P, Rieswijk L, Ehrhart F, Jeliazkova N, Tsiliki G, Sarimveis H, Evelo CT, Hongisto V, Kohonen P, Willighagen E, Grafström RC. A Data Fusion Pipeline for Generating and Enriching Adverse Outcome Pathway Descriptions. Toxicol Sci 2017; 162:264-275. [DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfx252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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- Penny Nymark
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Toxicology, Misvik Biology, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, 94720-7360 Berkeley, California, United States
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 80 Athens, Greece
- Institute for the Management of Information Systems, ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre, 151 25 Athens, Greece
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 80 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Toxicology, Misvik Biology, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Toxicology, Misvik Biology, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, 6200MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Toxicology, Misvik Biology, 20520 Turku, Finland
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Keijzer H, Snitselaar MA, Smits MG, Spruyt K, Zee PC, Ehrhart F, Curfs LM. Precision medicine in circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders: current state and future perspectives. Per Med 2017; 14:171-182. [PMID: 29754559 DOI: 10.2217/pme-2016-0079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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In circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders precision medicine is less developed than in other medical disciplines mainly because homeostatic sleep and circadian timing have a very complex phenotype with multiple genetic regulation mechanisms. However, biomarkers, phenotyping and psychosocial characteristics are increasingly used. Devices for polysomnography, actigraphy and sleep-tracking applications in mobile phones and other consumer devices with eHealth technologies are increasingly used. Also sleep-related questionnaires and the assessment of co-morbidities influencing sleep in circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders are major contributors to precision sleep medicine. To further strengthen the (pharmaco-)genetic and biomarker pillar, technology needs to be evolved further. Routinely measuring treatment results using patient-reported outcome measures and clinical neurophysiological instruments will boost precision sleep medicine.
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- Henry Keijzer
- Governor Kremers Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Chemistry & Hematology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Sleep-Wake Disturbances & Chronobiology, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, The Netherlands.,Pro Persona Mental Health Care, Ede, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Centre for Sleep-Wake Disturbances & Chronobiology, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, The Netherlands
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- Rett Expertise Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.,Department of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, Shanghai Children's Medical Centre affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Circadian & Sleep Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Governor Kremers Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Rett Expertise Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Ehrhart F, Coort SLM, Cirillo E, Smeets E, Evelo CT, Curfs LMG. Rett syndrome - biological pathways leading from MECP2 to disorder phenotypes. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2016; 11:158. [PMID: 27884167 PMCID: PMC5123333 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-016-0545-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare disease but still one of the most abundant causes for intellectual disability in females. Typical symptoms are onset at month 6-18 after normal pre- and postnatal development, loss of acquired skills and severe intellectual disability. The type and severity of symptoms are individually highly different. A single mutation in one gene, coding for methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2), is responsible for the disease. The most important action of MECP2 is regulating epigenetic imprinting and chromatin condensation, but MECP2 influences many different biological pathways on multiple levels although the molecular pathways from gene to phenotype are currently not fully understood. In this review the known changes in metabolite levels, gene expression and biological pathways in RTT are summarized, discussed how they are leading to some characteristic RTT phenotypes and therefore the gaps of knowledge are identified. Namely, which phenotypes have currently no mechanistic explanation leading back to MECP2 related pathways? As a result of this review the visualization of the biologic pathways showing MECP2 up- and downstream regulation was developed and published on WikiPathways which will serve as template for future omics data driven research. This pathway driven approach may serve as a use case for other rare diseases, too.
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- Friederike Ehrhart
- Governor Kremers Centre - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. .,Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Bioinformatics, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Governor Kremers Centre - Rett Expertise Centre, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Kilic G, Fadeel B, Farcal L, Sarimveis H, Doganis P, Drakakis G, Tsiliki G, Chomenidis C, Helma C, Rautenberg M, Gebele D, Jeliazkova N, Kochev N, Owen G, Chang J, Willighagen E, Ehrhart F, Rieswijk L, Hongisto V, Nymark P, Kohonen P, Grafström R, Hardy B. eNanoMapper – A database and ontology framework for design and safety assessment of nanomaterials. Toxicol Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2016.06.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Abuja PM, Ehrhart F, Schoen U, Schmidt T, Stracke F, Dallmann G, Friedrich T, Zimmermann H, Zatloukal K. Alterations in Human Liver Metabolome during Prolonged Cryostorage. J Proteome Res 2015; 14:2758-68. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Peter M. Abuja
- Institute
of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria Auenbruggerplatz 25, A-8036 Graz, Austria
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- Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ensheimer Str. 48, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ensheimer Str. 48, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ensheimer Str. 48, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ensheimer Str. 48, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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- BIOCRATES LifeSciences AG, Eduard-Bodem-Gasse
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- BIOCRATES LifeSciences AG, Eduard-Bodem-Gasse
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- Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ensheimer Str. 48, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Institute
of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria Auenbruggerplatz 25, A-8036 Graz, Austria
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Hütten M, Ehrhart F, Erhacrt F, Zimmermann H, Reich U, Esser KH, Lenarz T, Scheper V. UHV-alginate as matrix for neurotrophic factor producing cells--a novel biomaterial for cochlear implant optimization to preserve inner ear neurons from degeneration. Otol Neurotol 2013; 34:1127-33. [PMID: 23512074 DOI: 10.1097/mao.0b013e3182804949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Ultra high viscous (UHV-) alginate is a suitable matrix for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) producing cells, enabling cell survival and BDNF release out of the matrix and subsequent protection of auditory neuronal cells. BACKGROUND Cochlear implant (CI) target cells, spiral ganglion cells (SGC), undergo a progressive degeneration. BDNF prevents SGC from degeneration but has to be delivered locally to the inner ear for months. A permanent growth factor application may be realized via a cell-based drug delivery system. Encapsulation of this delivery system into a matrix could avoid immune response of the recipient, migration, and uncontrolled proliferation of the cells. METHODS NIH3T3-fibroblasts producing endogenous BDNF were incorporated in UHV-alginate. The survival of the cells in the alginate was examined by cell counts of cryogenic slices, and the BDNF production was determined by performing ELISA. The supernatant of the alginate-cell culture was added to primary SGC culture, and the neuroprotective effect of the produced BDNF was observed performing SGC counts. RESULTS BDNF-producing cells cultivated in UHV-alginate survived for up to 30 days, which was the latest time point observed. The BDNF concentration in cell culture medium, produced from in UHV-alginate incorporated fibroblasts and released out of the alginate matrix into the medium, was significantly increased after 30 days of cultivation. Supernatant of 7 days incubated UHV-alginate containing NIH3T3/BDNF cells significantly increased the SGC survival in vitro. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates UHV-alginate to be a suitable scaffold for BDNF-producing fibroblasts. UHV-alginates are a promising biomaterial for cochlear implant biofunctionalization.
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- Mareike Hütten
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Mettler E, Trenkler A, Feilen PJ, Wiegand F, Fottner C, Ehrhart F, Zimmermann H, Hwang YH, Lee DY, Fischer S, Schreiber LM, Weber MM. Magnetic separation of encapsulated islet cells labeled with superparamagnetic iron oxide nano particles. Xenotransplantation 2013; 20:219-26. [PMID: 23789985 DOI: 10.1111/xen.12042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 05/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Islet cell transplantation is a promising option for the restoration of normal glucose homeostasis in patients with type 1 diabetes. Because graft volume is a crucial issue in islet transplantations for patients with diabetes, we evaluated a new method for increasing functional tissue yield in xenogeneic grafts of encapsulated islets. Islets were labeled with three different superparamagnetic iron oxide nano particles (SPIONs; dextran-coated SPION, siloxane-coated SPION, and heparin-coated SPION). Magnetic separation was performed to separate encapsulated islets from the empty capsules, and cell viability and function were tested. Islets labeled with 1000 μg Fe/ml dextran-coated SPIONs experienced a 69.9% reduction in graft volume, with a 33.2% loss of islet-containing capsules. Islets labeled with 100 μg Fe/ml heparin-coated SPIONs showed a 46.4% reduction in graft volume, with a 4.5% loss of capsules containing islets. No purification could be achieved using siloxane-coated SPIONs due to its toxicity to the primary islets. SPION labeling of islets is useful for transplant purification during islet separation as well as in vivo imaging after transplantation. Furthermore, purification of encapsulated islets can also reduce the volume of the encapsulated islets without impairing their function by removing empty capsules.
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- Esther Mettler
- Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
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Wiedemeier S, Ehrhart F, Mettler E, Gastrock G, Forst T, Weber MM, Zimmermann H, Metze J. Encapsulation of Langerhans' islets: Microtechnological developments for transplantation. Eng Life Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201000146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Ehrhart F, Namer Y, Moshkov S, Sobolev M, Deutsch A, Howitz S, Greuner M, Thaele M, Meiser I, Zimmermann H, Deutsch M. The individual-cell-based cryo-chip for the cryopreservation, manipulation and observation of spatially identifiable cells. II: functional activity of cryopreserved cells. BMC Cell Biol 2010; 11:83. [PMID: 20973993 PMCID: PMC2987892 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-11-83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2010] [Accepted: 10/25/2010] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background The cryopreservation and thawing processes are known to induce many deleterious effects in cells and might be detrimental to several cell types. There is an inherent variability in cellular responses among cell types and within individual cells of a given population with regard to their ability to endure the freezing and thawing process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fate of cryopreserved cells within an optical cryo apparatus, the individual-cell-based cryo-chip (i3C), by monitoring several basic cellular functional activities at the resolution of individual cells. Results In the present study, U937 cells underwent the freezing and thawing cycle in the i3C device. Then a panel of vital tests was performed, including the number of dead cells (PI staining), apoptotic rate (Annexin V staining), mitochondrial membrane potential (TMRM staining), cytoplasm membrane integrity and intracellular metabolism (FDA staining), as well as post-thawing cell proliferation assays. Cells that underwent the freezing - thawing cycle in i3C devices exhibited the same functional activity as control cells. Moreover, the combination of the multi-parametric analysis at a single cell resolution and the optical and biological features of the device enable an accurate determination of the functional status of individual cells and subsequent retrieval and utilization of the most valuable cells. Conclusions The means and methodologies described here enable the freezing and thawing of spatially identifiable cells, as well as the efficient detection of viable, specific, highly biologically active cells for future applications.
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- Elena Afrimzon
- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Schottenstein Center for the Research and Technology of the Cellome, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Malpique R, Osório LM, Ferreira DS, Ehrhart F, Brito C, Zimmermann H, Alves PM. Alginate Encapsulation as a Novel Strategy for the Cryopreservation of Neurospheres. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2010; 16:965-77. [DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2009.0660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Rita Malpique
- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Animal Cell Technology Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Animal Cell Technology Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Animal Cell Technology Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Animal Cell Technology Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Kryobiophysik & Kryotechnologie, Fraunhofer-Institut for Biomedical Engineering, Universität des Saarlandes, St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Kryobiophysik & Kryotechnologie, Fraunhofer-Institut for Biomedical Engineering, Universität des Saarlandes, St. Ingbert, Germany
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- Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Animal Cell Technology Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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Deutsch M, Afrimzon E, Namer Y, Shafran Y, Sobolev M, Zurgil N, Deutsch A, Howitz S, Greuner M, Thaele M, Zimmermann H, Meiser I, Ehrhart F. The individual-cell-based cryo-chip for the cryopreservation, manipulation and observation of spatially identifiable cells. I: methodology. BMC Cell Biol 2010; 11:54. [PMID: 20609216 PMCID: PMC2912820 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-11-54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2009] [Accepted: 07/07/2010] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cryopreservation is the only widely applicable method of storing vital cells for nearly unlimited periods of time. Successful cryopreservation is essential for reproductive medicine, stem cell research, cord blood storage and related biomedical areas. The methods currently used to retrieve a specific cell or a group of individual cells with specific biological properties after cryopreservation are quite complicated and inefficient. RESULTS The present study suggests a new approach in cryopreservation, utilizing the Individual Cell-based Cryo-Chip (i3C). The i3C is made of materials having appropriate durability for cryopreservation conditions. The core of this approach is an array of picowells, each picowell designed to maintain an individual cell during the severe conditions of the freezing--thawing cycle and accompanying treatments. More than 97% of cells were found to retain their position in the picowells throughout the entire freezing--thawing cycle and medium exchange. Thus the comparison between pre-freezing and post-thawing data can be achieved at an individual cell resolution. The intactness of cells undergoing slow freezing and thawing, while residing in the i3C, was found to be similar to that obtained with micro-vials. However, in a fast freezing protocol, the i3C was found to be far superior. CONCLUSIONS The results of the present study offer new opportunities for cryopreservation. Using the present methodology, the cryopreservation of individual identifiable cells, and their observation and retrieval, at an individual cell resolution become possible for the first time. This approach facilitates the correlation between cell characteristics before and after the freezing--thawing cycle. Thus, it is expected to significantly enhance current cryopreservation procedures for successful regenerative and reproductive medicine.
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- Mordechai Deutsch
- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Schottenstein Center for the Research and Technology of the Cellome, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
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Malpique R, Ehrhart F, Osório L, Ferreira D, Zimmermann H, Alves PM. 20. Improved cryopreservation protocols for brain cell aggregates. Cryobiology 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2009.10.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Malpique R, Ehrhart F, Katsen-Globa A, Zimmermann H, Alves PM. Cryopreservation of adherent cells: strategies to improve cell viability and function after thawing. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2009; 15:373-86. [PMID: 19196129 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2008.0410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The commonly applied cryopreservation protocols routinely used in laboratories worldwide were developed for simple cell suspensions, and their application to complex systems, such as cell monolayers, tissues, or biosynthetic constructs, is not straightforward. In particular for monolayer cultures, cell detachment and membrane damage are often observed after cryopreservation. In this work, combined strategies for the cryopreservation of cells attached to Matrigel-coated well plate's surfaces were investigated based on cell entrapment in clinicalgrade, ultra-high viscosity alginate using two cell lines, neuroblastoma N2a and colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2, with distinct structural and functional characteristics. As the cryopreservation medium, serum-free CryoStor solution was compared with serum-supplemented culture medium, both containing 10% DMSO. Using culture medium, entrapment beneath an alginate layer was needed to improve cell recovery by minimizing membrane damage and cell detachment after thawing; nevertheless, up to 50% cell death still occurred within 24 h after thawing. The use of CryoStor solution represented a considerable improvement of the cryopreservation process for both cell lines, allowing the maintenance of high postthaw membrane integrity as well as full recovery of metabolic activity and differentiation capacity within 24 h postthawing; in this case, entrapment beneath an alginate layer did not confer further protection to cryopreserved Caco-2 cells, but was crucial for maintenance of attachment and integrity of N2a neuronal networks.
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- Rita Malpique
- Animal Cell Technology, IBET/ITQB-UNL, 27801-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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Doerr D, Stark M, Ehrhart F, Zimmermann H, Stracke F. Multiphoton microscopy for thein-situinvestigation of cellular processes and integrity in cryopreservation. Biotechnol J 2009; 4:1215-20. [DOI: 10.1002/biot.200800212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Storz H, Müller KJ, Ehrhart F, Gómez I, Shirley SG, Gessner P, Zimmermann G, Weyand E, Sukhorukov VL, Forst T, Weber MM, Zimmermann H, Kulicke WM, Zimmermann U. Physicochemical features of ultra-high viscosity alginates. Carbohydr Res 2009; 344:985-95. [PMID: 19394590 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2009.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2008] [Revised: 02/18/2009] [Accepted: 02/19/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The physicochemical characteristics of the ultra-high viscosity and highly biocompatible alginates extracted from Lessonia nigrescens (UHV(N)) and Lessonia trabeculata (UHV(T)) were analyzed. Fluorescence and (1)H NMR spectroscopies, viscometry, and multi-angle light scattering (MALS) were used for elucidation of the chemical structure, molar mass, and coil size. The sequential structures from NMR spectroscopy showed high guluronate content for UHV(T), but low for UHV(N). Intrinsic viscosity [eta] measurements exhibited unusual high values (up to 2750 mL/g), whereas [eta] of a commercial alginate was only about 970 mL/g. MALS batch measurements of the UHV-alginates yielded ultra-high values of the weight average molar mass (M(w) up to 1.1x10(6) g/mol) and of the z-average gyration radius (R(G)(z) up to 191 nm). The M(w) and R(G)(z) distributions of UHV-alginates and of ultrasonically degraded fractions were determined using size exclusion chromatography combined with MALS and asymmetrical flow-field-flow fractionation. The M(w) dependency of [eta] and R(G)(z) could be described by [eta]=0.059xM(w)(0.78) and R(G)(z)=0.103xM(w)(x). (UHV(N): x=0.52; UHV(T): x=0.53) indicating that the monomer composition has no effect on coil expansion. Therefore, the equations can be used to calculate M(w) and R(G)(z) values of UHV(T)- and UHV(N)-alginate mixtures as used in immunoisolation. Furthermore, the simple and inexpensive capillary viscometry can be used for real-time validation of the extraction and purification process of the UHV-alginates.
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- Henning Storz
- Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Ehrhart F, Schulz J, Katsen-Globa A, Shirley S, Reuter D, Bach F, Zimmermann U, Zimmermann H. A comparative study of freezing single cells and spheroids: Towards a new model system for optimizing freezing protocols for cryobanking of human tumours. Cryobiology 2009; 58:119-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2008.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2008] [Revised: 11/13/2008] [Accepted: 11/18/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Zimmermann H, Wählisch F, Baier C, Westhoff M, Reuss R, Zimmermann D, Behringer M, Ehrhart F, Katsen-Globa A, Giese C, Marx U, Sukhorukov VL, Vásquez JA, Jakob P, Shirley SG, Zimmermann U. Physical and biological properties of barium cross-linked alginate membranes. Biomaterials 2006; 28:1327-45. [PMID: 17166581 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.11.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2006] [Accepted: 11/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We describe the manufacture of highly stable and elastic alginate membranes with good cell adhesivity and adjustable permeability. Clinical grade, ultra-high viscosity alginate is gelled by diffusion of Ba2+ followed by use of the "crystal gun" [Zimmermann H. et al., Fabrication of homogeneously cross-linked, functional alginate microcapsules validated by NMR-, CLSM- and AFM-imaging. Biomaterials 2003;24:2083-96]. Burst pressure of well-hydrated membranes is between 34 and 325kPa depending on manufacture and storage details. Water flows induced by sorbitol and raffinose (probably diffusional) are lower than those caused by PEG 6000, which may be related to a Hagen-Poiseuille flow. Hydraulic conductivity, L(p), from PEG-induced flows ranges between 2.4x10(-12) and 6.5x10(-12) m Pa(-1)s(-1). Hydraulic conductivity measured with hydrostatic pressure up to 6 kPa is 2-3 orders of magnitude higher and decreases with increasing pressure to about 3x10(-10) m Pa(-1)s(-1) at 4kPa. Mechanical introduction of 200 microm-diameter pores increases hydraulic conductivity dramatically without loss of mechanical stability or flexibility. NMR imaging with Cu2+ as contrast agent shows a layered structure in membranes cross-linked for 2h. Phase contrast and atomic force microscopy in liquid environment reveals surface protrusions and cavities correlating with steps of the production process. Murine L929 cells adhere strongly to the rough surface of crystal-bombarded membranes. NaCl-mediated membrane swelling can be prevented by partial replacement of salt with sorbitol allowing cell culture on the membranes.
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- Heiko Zimmermann
- Abteilung Kryobiophysik & Kryotechnologie, Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, D-66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
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Zimmermann H, Katsen-Globa A, Ehrhart F, Reuss R, Feilen PJ, Sukhorukov VL, Schneider S, Weber MM, Zimmermann U. 102. Improved cryopreservation of pancreatic islets and multicellular spheroids in IBMT-miniaturized cryosubstrates. Cryobiology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2006.10.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Durst CH, Ihmig FR, Ehrhart F, Biel M, Daffertshofer M, Zimmermann H. 97. A method and technology for reliable sample-controlled execution of preparation and freezing protocols in biomedical laboratories and cryobanks. Cryobiology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2006.10.098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ehrhart F, Katsen-Globa A, Reuss R, Sukhorukov VL, Schulz JC, Stark M, Stracke F, Kasimir-Bauer S, Hain J, Zimmermann U, Zimmermann H. 101. Towards a new model system for optimizing freezing protocols for cryobanking of human tumors. Cryobiology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2006.10.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Katsen-Globa A, Kofanova OA, Ehrhart F, Sukhorukov VL, Bernhardt I, Zimmermann U, Zimmermann H. 92. A first cryopreservation of alginate-encapsulated red bloodcells in IBMT-miniaturized cryosubstrates. Cryobiology 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2006.10.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wolf R, Zimmermann D, Weber M, Feilen P, Ehrhart F, Salinas Jungjohann M, Katsen A, Behringer M, Gessner P, Pliess L, Steinbach A, Spitz J, Vásquez JA, Schneider S, Bamberg E, Weber MM, Zimmermann U, Zimmermann H. Real-time 3-D dark-field microscopy for the validation of the cross-linking process of alginate microcapsules. Biomaterials 2005; 26:6386-93. [PMID: 15913773 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2005] [Accepted: 04/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Alginate-based microencapsulation is a promising method for long-term maintenance of cellular and membrane function of the cells and tissue fragments required for in vitro and in vivo biosensors, for tissue engineering and particularly for immunoisolation of non-autologous transplants. Microcapsules of high mechanical strength and optimum permeability can be produced by injection of BaCl2 crystals into alginate droplets before they come into contact with external Ba2+. A key requirement is that the system parameters (number of crystals, speed of the crystal stream etc.) are properly adjusted according to the mannuronic and guluronic acid ratio and the average molecular mass of the alginate as well as to the diameter of the microcapsules. Robust, reliable, rapid and low-cost validation tools are, therefore, needed for assurance of the microcapsule quality. Here, we describe a novel three-dimensional (3-D) dark-field microscopy that allows the real-time measurement of the number and spatial distribution of the injected Ba2+ ions throughout the microcapsules after treatment with sulphate. This novel method requires only a conventional microscope equipped with three polarising filters and a double aperture stop. In contrast to confocal laser scanning microscopy images, peripherally attached BaSO4 precipitates can clearly be distinguished from internal ones. The data also demonstrate that several steps of the alginate gelling process must be improved before such immunoisolation can be used in patients.
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- R Wolf
- Lehrstuhl für Zoologie I, Elektronenmikroskopie, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Zimmermann H, Zimmermann D, Reuss R, Feilen PJ, Manz B, Katsen A, Weber M, Ihmig FR, Ehrhart F, Gessner P, Behringer M, Steinbach A, Wegner LH, Sukhorukov VL, Vásquez JA, Schneider S, Weber MM, Volke F, Wolf R, Zimmermann U. Towards a medically approved technology for alginate-based microcapsules allowing long-term immunoisolated transplantation. J Mater Sci Mater Med 2005; 16:491-501. [PMID: 15928863 DOI: 10.1007/s10856-005-0523-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2004] [Accepted: 10/15/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The concept of encapsulated-cell therapy is very appealing, but in practice a great deal of technology and know-how is needed for the production of long-term functional transplants. Alginate is one of the most promising biomaterials for immunoisolation of allogeneic and xenogeneic cells and tissues (such as Langerhans islets). Although great advances in alginate-based cell encapsulation have been reported, several improvements need to be made before routine clinical applications can be considered. Among these is the production of purified alginates with consistently high transplantation-grade quality. This depends to a great extent on the purity of the input algal source as well as on the development of alginate extraction and purification processes that can be validated. A key engineering challenge in designing immunoisolating alginate-based microcapsules is that of maintaining unimpeded exchange of nutrients, oxygen and therapeutic factors (released by the encapsulated cells), while simultaneously avoiding swelling and subsequent rupture of the microcapsules. This requires the development of efficient, validated and well-documented technology for cross-linking alginates with divalent cations. Clinical applications also require validated technology for long-term cryopreservation of encapsulated cells to maintaining a product inventory in order to meet end-user demands. As shown here these demands could be met by the development of novel, validated technologies for production of transplantation-grade alginate and microcapsule engineering and storage. The advances in alginate-based therapy are demonstrated by transplantation of encapsulated rat and human islet grafts that functioned properly for about 1 year in diabetic mice.
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- H Zimmermann
- Abteilung Kryobiophysik & Kryotechnologie, Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik, 66386, St. Ingbert, Germany
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