Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.

Chemotherapy resistance is a major challenge to the effective treatment of cancer. Thus, a systematic pipeline for the efficient identification of effective combination treatments could bring huge biomedical benefit. In order to facilitate rational design of combination therapies, we developed a com...

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Autores principales: Yin Zhang, Julie M Huynh, Guan-Sheng Liu, Richard Ballweg, Kayenat S Aryeh, Andrew L Paek, Tongli Zhang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f501b1749c324b698edad8e4e09907c92021-12-02T19:57:52ZDesigning combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.1553-734X1553-735810.1371/journal.pcbi.1007158https://doaj.org/article/f501b1749c324b698edad8e4e09907c92019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007158https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358Chemotherapy resistance is a major challenge to the effective treatment of cancer. Thus, a systematic pipeline for the efficient identification of effective combination treatments could bring huge biomedical benefit. In order to facilitate rational design of combination therapies, we developed a comprehensive computational model that incorporates the available biological knowledge and relevant experimental data on the life-and-death response of individual cancer cells to cisplatin or cisplatin combined with the TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). The model's predictions, that a combination treatment of cisplatin and TRAIL would enhance cancer cell death and exhibit a "two-wave killing" temporal pattern, was validated by measuring the dynamics of p53 accumulation, cell fate, and cell death in single cells. The validated model was then subjected to a systematic analysis with an ensemble of diverse machine learning methods. Though each method is characterized by a different algorithm, they collectively identified several molecular players that can sensitize tumor cells to cisplatin-induced apoptosis (sensitizers). The identified sensitizers are consistent with previous experimental observations. Overall, we have illustrated that machine learning analysis of an experimentally validated mechanistic model can convert our available knowledge into the identity of biologically meaningful sensitizers. This knowledge can then be leveraged to design treatment strategies that could improve the efficacy of chemotherapy.Yin ZhangJulie M HuynhGuan-Sheng LiuRichard BallwegKayenat S AryehAndrew L PaekTongli ZhangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e1007158 (2019)
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QH301-705.5
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QH301-705.5
Yin Zhang
Julie M Huynh
Guan-Sheng Liu
Richard Ballweg
Kayenat S Aryeh
Andrew L Paek
Tongli Zhang
Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
description Chemotherapy resistance is a major challenge to the effective treatment of cancer. Thus, a systematic pipeline for the efficient identification of effective combination treatments could bring huge biomedical benefit. In order to facilitate rational design of combination therapies, we developed a comprehensive computational model that incorporates the available biological knowledge and relevant experimental data on the life-and-death response of individual cancer cells to cisplatin or cisplatin combined with the TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). The model's predictions, that a combination treatment of cisplatin and TRAIL would enhance cancer cell death and exhibit a "two-wave killing" temporal pattern, was validated by measuring the dynamics of p53 accumulation, cell fate, and cell death in single cells. The validated model was then subjected to a systematic analysis with an ensemble of diverse machine learning methods. Though each method is characterized by a different algorithm, they collectively identified several molecular players that can sensitize tumor cells to cisplatin-induced apoptosis (sensitizers). The identified sensitizers are consistent with previous experimental observations. Overall, we have illustrated that machine learning analysis of an experimentally validated mechanistic model can convert our available knowledge into the identity of biologically meaningful sensitizers. This knowledge can then be leveraged to design treatment strategies that could improve the efficacy of chemotherapy.
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author Yin Zhang
Julie M Huynh
Guan-Sheng Liu
Richard Ballweg
Kayenat S Aryeh
Andrew L Paek
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Julie M Huynh
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title Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
title_short Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
title_full Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
title_fullStr Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
title_full_unstemmed Designing combination therapies with modeling chaperoned machine learning.
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