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Exploring host-pathogen interactions through genome wide protein microarray analysis.

ABSTRACT: During bacterial pathogenesis extensive contacts between the human and the bacterial extracellular proteomes take place. The identification of novel host-pathogen interactions by standard methods using a case-by-case approach is laborious and time consuming. To overcome this limitation, we took advantage of large libraries of human and bacterial recombinant proteins. We applied a large-scale protein microarray-based screening on two important human pathogens using two different approaches: (I) 75 human extracellular proteins were tested on 159 spotted Staphylococcus aureus recombinant proteins and (II) Neisseria meningitidis adhesin (NadA), an important vaccine component against serogroup B meningococcus, was screened against ?2300 spotted human recombinant proteins. The approach presented here allowed the identification of the interaction between the S. aureus immune evasion protein FLIPr (formyl-peptide receptor like-1 inhibitory protein) and the human complement component C1q, key players of the offense-defense fighting; and of the interaction between meningococcal NadA and human LOX-1 (low-density oxidized lipoprotein receptor), an endothelial receptor. The novel interactions between bacterial and human extracellular proteins here presented might provide a better understanding of the molecular events underlying S. aureus and N. meningitidis pathogenesis.

SUBMITTER: Scietti L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908583 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Exploring host-pathogen interactions through genome wide protein microarray analysis.

Scietti Luigi L Sampieri Katia K Pinzuti Irene I Bartolini Erika E Benucci Barbara B Liguori Alessia A Haag Andreas F AF Lo Surdo Paola P Pansegrau Werner W Nardi-Dei Vincenzo V Santini Laura L Arora Seguinde S Leber Xavier X Rindi Simonetta S Savino Silvana S Costantino Paolo P Maione Domenico D Merola Marcello M Speziale Pietro P Bottomley Matthew J MJ Bagnoli Fabio F Masignani Vega V Pizza Mariagrazia M Scharenberg Meike M Schlaeppi Jean-Marc JM Nissum Mikkel M Liberatori Sabrina S

Scientific reports 20160615

During bacterial pathogenesis extensive contacts between the human and the bacterial extracellular proteomes take place. The identification of novel host-pathogen interactions by standard methods using a case-by-case approach is laborious and time consuming. To overcome this limitation, we took advantage of large libraries of human and bacterial recombinant proteins. We applied a large-scale protein microarray-based screening on two important human pathogens using two different approaches: (I) 7 ...[more]

PMID: 27302108

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Project description:MotivationAn important aspect of infectious disease research involves understanding the differences and commonalities in the infection mechanisms underlying various diseases. Systems biology-based approaches study infectious diseases by analyzing the interactions between the host species and the pathogen organisms. This work aims to combine the knowledge from experimental studies of host-pathogen interactions in several diseases to build stronger predictive models. Our approach is based on a formalism from machine learning called 'multitask learning', which considers the problem of building models across tasks that are related to each other. A 'task' in our scenario is the set of host-pathogen protein interactions involved in one disease. To integrate interactions from several tasks (i.e. diseases), our method exploits the similarity in the infection process across the diseases. In particular, we use the biological hypothesis that similar pathogens target the same critical biological processes in the host, in defining a common structure across the tasks.ResultsOur current work on host-pathogen protein interaction prediction focuses on human as the host, and four bacterial species as pathogens. The multitask learning technique we develop uses a task-based regularization approach. We find that the resulting optimization problem is a difference of convex (DC) functions. To optimize, we implement a Convex-Concave procedure-based algorithm. We compare our integrative approach to baseline methods that build models on a single host-pathogen protein interaction dataset. Our results show that our approach outperforms the baselines on the training data. We further analyze the protein interaction predictions generated by the models, and find some interesting insights.AvailabilityThe predictions and code are available at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/∼mkshirsa/ismb2013_paper320.html .Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Exploring host-pathogen interactions through genome wide protein microarray analysis.

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Exploring host-pathogen interactions through genome wide protein microarray analysis.

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