Soofi Asma, Taghizadeh Mohammad, Tabatabaei Seyyed Mohammad, Rezaei Tavirani Mostafa, Shakib Heeva, Namaki Saeed, Safari Alighiarloo Nahid
Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Pharm Res. 2020 Fall;19(4):121-134. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2020.113342.14242.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) occurs as a consequence of an autoimmune attack against pancreatic β- cells. Due to a lack of a clear understanding of the T1D pathogenesis, the identification of effective therapies for T1D is the active area in the research. The study purpose was to prioritize potential drugs and targets in T1D via systems biology approach. Gene expression data of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and pancreatic β-cells in T1D were analyzed and differential expressed genes were integrated with protein-protein interactions (PPI) data. Multiple topological centrality parameters of extracted query-query PPI (QQPPI) networks were calculated and the interaction of more central proteins with drugs was investigated. Molecular docking was performed to further predict the interactions between drugs and the binding sites of targets. Central proteins were identified by the analysis of PBMC (MYC, ERBB2, PSMA1, ABL1 and HSP90AA1) and pancreatic β-cells (HSP90AB1, ESR1, RELA, RAC1, NFKB1, NFKB2, IKBKE, ARRB2 and SRC) QQPPI networks. Thirteen drugs which targeted eight central proteins were identified by further analysis of drug-target interactions. Some drugs which investigated for diabetes treatment in the experimental models of T1D were prioritized by literature verification, including melatonin, resveratrol, lapatinib, geldanamycin, eugenol and fostaminib. Finally, according on molecular docking analysis, lapatinib-ERBB2 and eugenol-ESR1 exhibited highest and lowest binding energy, respectively. This study presented promising results for the prioritization of potential drug-targets which might facilitate T1D targeted therapy and its drug discovery process more effectively.
1型糖尿病(T1D)是针对胰腺β细胞的自身免疫攻击的结果。由于对T1D发病机制缺乏清晰的了解,确定T1D的有效治疗方法是研究的活跃领域。本研究的目的是通过系统生物学方法对T1D中的潜在药物和靶点进行优先级排序。分析了T1D患者外周血单核细胞(PBMC)和胰腺β细胞的基因表达数据,并将差异表达基因与蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用(PPI)数据整合。计算了提取的查询-查询PPI(QQPPI)网络的多个拓扑中心性参数,并研究了更多中心蛋白与药物的相互作用。进行分子对接以进一步预测药物与靶点结合位点之间的相互作用。通过分析PBMC(MYC、ERBB2、PSMA1、ABL1和HSP90AA1)和胰腺β细胞(HSP90AB1、ESR1、RELA、RAC1、NFKB1、NFKB2、IKBKE、ARRB2和SRC)的QQPPI网络鉴定了中心蛋白。通过进一步分析药物-靶点相互作用,确定了针对8个中心蛋白的13种药物。通过文献验证对一些在T1D实验模型中研究用于糖尿病治疗的药物进行了优先级排序,包括褪黑素、白藜芦醇、拉帕替尼、格尔德霉素、丁香酚和福斯塔替尼。最后,根据分子对接分析,拉帕替尼-ERBB2和丁香酚-ESR1分别表现出最高和最低的结合能。本研究为潜在药物靶点的优先级排序提供了有希望的结果,这可能更有效地促进T1D的靶向治疗及其药物发现过程。