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Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Modules in Cancer Cell Cycle by Multi-Source Data Integration

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Yujien
dc.contributor.authorXuan, Jianhuaen
dc.contributor.authorde los Reyes, Benildo G.en
dc.contributor.authorClarke, Roberten
dc.contributor.authorRessom, Habtom W.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-13T14:06:48Zen
dc.date.available2018-11-13T14:06:48Zen
dc.date.issued2010-04-21en
dc.description.abstractBackground Precise regulation of the cell cycle is crucial to the growth and development of all organisms. Understanding the regulatory mechanism of the cell cycle is crucial to unraveling many complicated diseases, most notably cancer. Multiple sources of biological data are available to study the dynamic interactions among many genes that are related to the cancer cell cycle. Integrating these informative and complementary data sources can help to infer a mutually consistent gene transcriptional regulatory network with strong similarity to the underlying gene regulatory relationships in cancer cells. Results and Principal Findings We propose an integrative framework that infers gene regulatory modules from the cell cycle of cancer cells by incorporating multiple sources of biological data, including gene expression profiles, gene ontology, and molecular interaction. Among 846 human genes with putative roles in cell cycle regulation, we identified 46 transcription factors and 39 gene ontology groups. We reconstructed regulatory modules to infer the underlying regulatory relationships. Four regulatory network motifs were identified from the interaction network. The relationship between each transcription factor and predicted target gene groups was examined by training a recurrent neural network whose topology mimics the network motif(s) to which the transcription factor was assigned. Inferred network motifs related to eight well-known cell cycle genes were confirmed by gene set enrichment analysis, binding site enrichment analysis, and comparison with previously published experimental results. Conclusions We established a robust method that can accurately infer underlying relationships between a given transcription factor and its downstream target genes by integrating different layers of biological data. Our method could also be beneficial to biologists for predicting the components of regulatory modules in which any candidate gene is involved. Such predictions can then be used to design a more streamlined experimental approach for biological validation. Understanding the dynamics of these modules will shed light on the processes that occur in cancer cells resulting from errors in cell cycle regulation.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010268en
dc.identifier.eissn1932-6203en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.othere10268en
dc.identifier.pmid20422009en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/85824en
dc.identifier.volume5en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPLOSen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleReconstruction of Gene Regulatory Modules in Cancer Cell Cycle by Multi-Source Data Integrationen
dc.title.serialPLOS ONEen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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