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AuthorsThiele, Ines (3)Fleming, Ronan M T (2)Palsson, Bernhard O (2)[ 1 ] Kings Coll London, Inst Psychiat, MRC Social Genet & Dev Psychiat Ctr, London WC2R 2LS, England [ 2 ] Guys & St Thomas NHS Fdn Trust, Dept Cytogenet, London, England [ 3 ] Kings Coll London, Inst Psychiat, Dept Clin Neurosci, London WC2R 2LS, England [ 4 ] Childrens Hosp Philadelphia, Ctr Biomed Informat, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA [ 5 ] Childrens Hosp Philadelphia, Div Oncol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA [ 6 ] CHRU Lille, Inst Genet Med, Lille, France [ 7 ] Eli Lilly & Co Ltd, Discovery Neurosci Res, Lilly Res Labs, Windlesham, Surrey, England (1)[ 1 ] THL Natl Inst Hlth & Welf, Helsinki, Finland [ 2 ] TNO, Netherlands Org Appl Sci Res, Dept Child Hlth, Leiden, Netherlands [ 3 ] Anton de Kom Univ Suriname, Fac Med Sci, Dept Publ Hlth, Paramaribo, Surinam [ 4 ] Paris Descartes Univ, Ctr Epidemiol & Biostat U1153, Obstetr Perinatal & Paediat Epidemiol Res Team, INSERM, Paris, France [ 5 ] Univ Bergen, Dept Global Publ Hlth & Primary Care, N-5018 Bergen, Norway [ 6 ] Norwegian Inst Publ Hlth, Med Birth Registry Norway, N-5018 Bergen, Norway [ 7 ] Univ Ljubljana, Med Ctr, Ljubljana 61000, Slovenia [ 8 ] Natl Res Inst Mother & Child, Dept Epidemiol, Warsaw, Poland [ 9 ] Inst Care Mother & Child, Prague, Czech Republic [ 10 ] Landspitali Univ Hosp, Dept Obstet & Gynaecol, Reykjavik, Iceland   Organization-Enhanced Name(s)      Landspitali National University Hospital (1)View MoreTypes
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Variations in Multiple Birth Rates and Impact on Perinatal Outcomes in Europe.

Heino, Anna; Gissler, Mika; Hindori-Mohangoo, Ashna D; Blondel, Béatrice; Klungsøyr, Kari; Verdenik, Ivan; Mierzejewska, Ewa; Velebil, Petr; Sól Ólafsdóttir, Helga; Macfarlane, Alison; et al. (Public Library Science, 2016)
Infants from multiple pregnancies have higher rates of preterm birth, stillbirth and neonatal death and differences in multiple birth rates (MBR) exist between countries. We aimed to describe differences in MBR in Europe and to investigate the impact of these differences on adverse perinatal outcomes at a population level.
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Contextualization procedure and modeling of monocyte specific TLR signaling.

Aurich, Maike K; Thiele, Ines (Public Library Science, 2012)
Innate immunity is the first line of defense against invasion of pathogens. Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is involved in a variety of human diseases extending far beyond immune system-related diseases, affecting a number of different tissues and cell-types. Computational models often do not account for cell-type specific differences in signaling networks. Investigation of these differences and its phenotypic implications could increase understanding of cell signaling and processes such as inflammation. The wealth of knowledge for TLR signaling has been recently summarized in a stoichiometric signaling network applicable for constraint-based modeling and analysis (COBRA). COBRA methods have been applied to investigate tissue-specific metabolism using omics data integration. Comparable approaches have not been conducted using signaling networks. In this study, we present ihsTLRv2, an updated TLR signaling network accounting for the association of 314 genes with 558 network reactions. We present a mapping procedure for transcriptomic data onto signaling networks and demonstrate the generation of a monocyte-specific TLR network. The generated monocyte network is characterized through expression of a specific set of isozymes rather than reduction of pathway contents. While further tailoring the network to a specific stimulation condition, we observed that the quantitative changes in gene expression due to LPS stimulation affected the tightly connected set of genes. Differential expression influenced about one third of the entire TLR signaling network, in particular, NF-κB activation. Thus, a cell-type and condition-specific signaling network can provide functional insight into signaling cascades. Furthermore, we demonstrate the energy dependence of TLR signaling pathways in monocytes.
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Male-biased autosomal effect of 16p13.11 copy number variation in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Tropeano, Maria; Ahn, Joo Wook; Dobson, Richard J B; Breen, Gerome; Rucker, James; Dixit, Abhishek; Pal, Deb K; McGuffin, Peter; Farmer, Anne; White, Peter S; et al. (Public Library Science, 2013)
Copy number variants (CNVs) at chromosome 16p13.11 have been associated with a range of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, ADHD, intellectual disability and schizophrenia. Significant sex differences in prevalence, course and severity have been described for a number of these conditions but the biological and environmental factors underlying such sex-specific features remain unclear. We tested the burden and the possible sex-biased effect of CNVs at 16p13.11 in a sample of 10,397 individuals with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions, clinically referred for array comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH); cases were compared with 11,277 controls. In order to identify candidate phenotype-associated genes, we performed an interval-based analysis and investigated the presence of ohnologs at 16p13.11; finally, we searched the DECIPHER database for previously identified 16p13.11 copy number variants. In the clinical referral series, we identified 46 cases with CNVs of variable size at 16p13.11, including 28 duplications and 18 deletions. Patients were referred for various phenotypes, including developmental delay, autism, speech delay, learning difficulties, behavioural problems, epilepsy, microcephaly and physical dysmorphisms. CNVs at 16p13.11 were also present in 17 controls. Association analysis revealed an excess of CNVs in cases compared with controls (OR = 2.59; p = 0.0005), and a sex-biased effect, with a significant enrichment of CNVs only in the male subgroup of cases (OR = 5.62; p = 0.0002), but not in females (OR = 1.19, p = 0.673). The same pattern of results was also observed in the DECIPHER sample. Interval-based analysis showed a significant enrichment of case CNVs containing interval II (OR = 2.59; p = 0.0005), located in the 0.83 Mb genomic region between 15.49-16.32 Mb, and encompassing the four ohnologs NDE1, MYH11, ABCC1 and ABCC6. Our data confirm that duplications and deletions at 16p13.11 represent incompletely penetrant pathogenic mutations that predispose to a range of neurodevelopmental disorders, and suggest a sex-limited effect on the penetrance of the pathological phenotypes at the 16p13.11 locus.
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A systems biology approach to drug targets in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm.

Sigurdsson, Gunnar; Fleming, Ronan M T; Heinken, Almut; Thiele, Ines (Public Library Science, 2012)
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem in the health care system and we are in a constant race with evolving bacteria. Biofilm-associated growth is thought to play a key role in bacterial adaptability and antibiotic resistance. We employed a systems biology approach to identify candidate drug targets for biofilm-associated bacteria by imitating specific microenvironments found in microbial communities associated with biofilm formation. A previously reconstructed metabolic model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) was used to study the effect of gene deletion on bacterial growth in planktonic and biofilm-like environmental conditions. A set of 26 genes essential in both conditions was identified. Moreover, these genes have no homology with any human gene. While none of these genes were essential in only one of the conditions, we found condition-dependent genes, which could be used to slow growth specifically in biofilm-associated PA. Furthermore, we performed a double gene deletion study and obtained 17 combinations consisting of 21 different genes, which were conditionally essential. While most of the difference in double essential gene sets could be explained by different medium composition found in biofilm-like and planktonic conditions, we observed a clear effect of changes in oxygen availability on the growth performance. Eight gene pairs were found to be synthetic lethal in oxygen-limited conditions. These gene sets may serve as novel metabolic drug targets to combat particularly biofilm-associated PA. Taken together, this study demonstrates that metabolic modeling of human pathogens can be used to identify oxygen-sensitive drug targets and thus, that this systems biology approach represents a powerful tool to identify novel candidate antibiotic targets.
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Multiscale modeling of metabolism and macromolecular synthesis in E. coli and its application to the evolution of codon usage.

Thiele, Ines; Fleming, Ronan M T; Que, Richard; Bordbar, Aarash; Diep, Dinh; Palsson, Bernhard O (Public Library Science, 2012)
Biological systems are inherently hierarchal and multiscale in time and space. A major challenge of systems biology is to describe biological systems as a computational model, which can be used to derive novel hypothesis and drive experiments leading to new knowledge. The constraint-based reconstruction and analysis approach has been successfully applied to metabolism and to the macromolecular synthesis machinery assembly. Here, we present the first integrated stoichiometric multiscale model of metabolism and macromolecular synthesis for Escherichia coli K12 MG1655, which describes the sequence-specific synthesis and function of almost 2000 gene products at molecular detail. We added linear constraints, which couple enzyme synthesis and catalysis reactions. Comparison with experimental data showed improvement of growth phenotype prediction with the multiscale model over E. coli's metabolic model alone. Many of the genes covered by this integrated model are well conserved across enterobacters and other, less related bacteria. We addressed the question of whether the bias in synonymous codon usage could affect the growth phenotype and environmental niches that an organism can occupy. We created two classes of in silico strains, one with more biased codon usage and one with more equilibrated codon usage than the wildtype. The reduced growth phenotype in biased strains was caused by tRNA supply shortage, indicating that expansion of tRNA gene content or tRNA codon recognition allow E. coli to respond to changes in codon usage bias. Our analysis suggests that in order to maximize growth and to adapt to new environmental niches, codon usage and tRNA content must co-evolve. These results provide further evidence for the mutation-selection-drift balance theory of codon usage bias. This integrated multiscale reconstruction successfully demonstrates that the constraint-based modeling approach is well suited to whole-cell modeling endeavors.
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Biochemical characterization of human gluconokinase and the proposed metabolic impact of gluconic acid as determined by constraint based metabolic network analysis.

Rohatgi, Neha; Nielsen, Tine Kragh; Bjørn, Sara Petersen; Axelsson, Ivar; Paglia, Giuseppe; Voldborg, Bjørn Gunnar; Palsson, Bernhard O; Rolfsson, Óttar (Public Library Science, 2014)
The metabolism of gluconate is well characterized in prokaryotes where it is known to be degraded following phosphorylation by gluconokinase. Less is known of gluconate metabolism in humans. Human gluconokinase activity was recently identified proposing questions about the metabolic role of gluconate in humans. Here we report the recombinant expression, purification and biochemical characterization of isoform I of human gluconokinase alongside substrate specificity and kinetic assays of the enzyme catalyzed reaction. The enzyme, shown to be a dimer, had ATP dependent phosphorylation activity and strict specificity towards gluconate out of 122 substrates tested. In order to evaluate the metabolic impact of gluconate in humans we modeled gluconate metabolism using steady state metabolic network analysis. The results indicate that significant metabolic flux changes in anabolic pathways linked to the hexose monophosphate shunt (HMS) are induced through a small increase in gluconate concentration. We argue that the enzyme takes part in a context specific carbon flux route into the HMS that, in humans, remains incompletely explored. Apart from the biochemical description of human gluconokinase, the results highlight that little is known of the mechanism of gluconate metabolism in humans despite its widespread use in medicine and consumer products.
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