Title
Deregulation upon DNA damage revealed by joint analysis of context-specific perturbation data.
Abstract
Deregulation between two different cell populations manifests itself in changing gene expression patterns and changing regulatory interactions. Accumulating knowledge about biological networks creates an opportunity to study these changes in their cellular context.We analyze re-wiring of regulatory networks based on cell population-specific perturbation data and knowledge about signaling pathways and their target genes. We quantify deregulation by merging regulatory signal from the two cell populations into one score. This joint approach, called JODA, proves advantageous over separate analysis of the cell populations and analysis without incorporation of knowledge. JODA is implemented and freely available in a Bioconductor package 'joda'.Using JODA, we show wide-spread re-wiring of gene regulatory networks upon neocarzinostatin-induced DNA damage in Human cells. We recover 645 deregulated genes in thirteen functional clusters performing the rich program of response to damage. We find that the clusters contain many previously characterized neocarzinostatin target genes. We investigate connectivity between those genes, explaining their cooperation in performing the common functions. We review genes with the most extreme deregulation scores, reporting their involvement in response to DNA damage. Finally, we investigate the indirect impact of the ATM pathway on the deregulated genes, and build a hypothetical hierarchy of direct regulation. These results prove that JODA is a step forward to a systems level, mechanistic understanding of changes in gene regulation between different cell populations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1186/1471-2105-12-249
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene expression profiling,signal transduction,microarrays,bioinformatics,gene regulatory network,algorithms,biological network,dna repair,dna damage,signaling pathway,gene regulation,gene expression regulation
Biology,Biological network,Regulation of gene expression,Deregulation,DNA damage,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Gene regulatory network,DNA repair,Gene expression profiling,DNA microarray
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.34
16
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ewa Szczurek1496.75
F Markowetz229619.18
Irit Gat-Viks313216.58
Przemysław Biecek4183.15
Jerzy Tiuryn51210126.00
Martin Vingron61754298.16