Weiliang Qiu1, Feng Guo1, Kimberly Glass1, Guo Cheng Yuan2, John Quackenbush2, Xiaobo Zhou1, Kelan G Tantisira3. 1. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 2. Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. 3. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: rekgt@channing.harvard.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Variations in drug response between individuals have prevented us from achieving high drug efficacy in treating many complex diseases, including asthma. Genetics plays an important role in accounting for such interindividual variations in drug response. However, systematic approaches for addressing how genetic factors and their regulators determine variations in drug response in asthma treatment are lacking. OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify key transcriptional regulators of corticosteroid response in asthma using a novel systems biology approach. METHODS: We used Passing Attributes between Networks for Data Assimilations (PANDA) to construct the gene regulatory networks associated with good responders and poor responders to inhaled corticosteroids based on a subset of 145 white children with asthma who participated in the Childhood Asthma Management Cohort. PANDA uses gene expression profiles and published relationships among genes, transcription factors (TFs), and proteins to construct the directed networks of TFs and genes. We assessed the differential connectivity between the gene regulatory network of good responders versus that of poor responders. RESULTS: When compared with poor responders, the network of good responders has differential connectivity and distinct ontologies (eg, proapoptosis enriched in network of good responders and antiapoptosis enriched in network of poor responders). Many of the key hubs identified in conjunction with clinical response are also cellular response hubs. Functional validation demonstrated abrogation of differences in corticosteroid-treated cell viability following siRNA knockdown of 2 TFs and differential downstream expression between good responders and poor responders. CONCLUSIONS: We have identified and validated multiple TFs influencing asthma treatment response. Our results show that differential connectivity analysis can provide new insights into the heterogeneity of drug treatment effects.
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BACKGROUND: Variations in drug response between individuals have prevented us from achieving high drug efficacy in treating many complex diseases, including asthma. Genetics plays an important role in accounting for such interindividual variations in drug response. However, systematic approaches for addressing how genetic factors and their regulators determine variations in drug response in asthma treatment are lacking. OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify key transcriptional regulators of corticosteroid response in asthma using a novel systems biology approach. METHODS: We used Passing Attributes between Networks for Data Assimilations (PANDA) to construct the gene regulatory networks associated with good responders and poor responders to inhaled corticosteroids based on a subset of 145 white children with asthma who participated in the Childhood Asthma Management Cohort. PANDA uses gene expression profiles and published relationships among genes, transcription factors (TFs), and proteins to construct the directed networks of TFs and genes. We assessed the differential connectivity between the gene regulatory network of good responders versus that of poor responders. RESULTS: When compared with poor responders, the network of good responders has differential connectivity and distinct ontologies (eg, proapoptosis enriched in network of good responders and antiapoptosis enriched in network of poor responders). Many of the key hubs identified in conjunction with clinical response are also cellular response hubs. Functional validation demonstrated abrogation of differences in corticosteroid-treated cell viability following siRNA knockdown of 2 TFs and differential downstream expression between good responders and poor responders. CONCLUSIONS: We have identified and validated multiple TFs influencing asthma treatment response. Our results show that differential connectivity analysis can provide new insights into the heterogeneity of drug treatment effects.
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