Application of multiple omics and network projection analyses to drug repositioning for pathogenic mosquito-borne viruses

Abstract Pathogenic mosquito-borne viruses are a serious public health issue in tropical and subtropical regions and are increasingly becoming a problem in other climate zones. Drug repositioning is a rapid, pharmaco-economic approach that can be used to identify compounds that target these neglecte...

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Autores principales: Takayuki Amemiya, Katsuhisa Horimoto, Kazuhiko Fukui
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Pathogenic mosquito-borne viruses are a serious public health issue in tropical and subtropical regions and are increasingly becoming a problem in other climate zones. Drug repositioning is a rapid, pharmaco-economic approach that can be used to identify compounds that target these neglected tropical diseases. We have applied a computational drug repositioning method to five mosquito-borne viral infections: dengue virus (DENV), zika virus (ZIKV), West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIV). We identified signature molecules and pathways for each virus infection based on omics analyses, and determined 77 drug candidates and 146 proteins for those diseases by using a filtering method. Based on the omics analyses, we analyzed the relationship among drugs, target proteins and the five viruses by projecting the signature molecules onto a human protein–protein interaction network. We have classified the drug candidates according to the degree of target proteins in the protein–protein interaction network for the five infectious diseases.